Security News

HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 12:25

Pressing a finger on your mobile phone's fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers equip their mobile products with...

Sensitive info of over 21.5M people, including SSNs and fingerprints, stolen in OPM hack (Help Net Security)
2015-07-10 07:36

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revealed on Thursday the full extent of the information stolen in the two data breaches it suffered in 2014. In the first breach, personnel data (nam...