Security News

Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication
2018-08-02 00:55

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn't seem too severe....

SMS 2FA gave us sweet FA security, says Reddit: Hackers stole database backup of user account info, posts, messages
2018-08-01 18:40

Email addresses, hashed passwords, and other details from mid-2000s era swiped In a Wednesday mea culpa, Reddit – the online chat board that got a little out of hand and became the sixth most...

Reddit Breach Stems from SMS Two-Factor Authentication Breakdown
2018-08-01 18:33

A hacker has compromised Reddit's systems and was able to make away with email addresses and account credentials.

Norman the AI bot reads Reddit, becomes “psychopath”
2018-06-07 10:25

You say tomato. I say tomahto. "Norman" would likely see a traffic fatality splattered on the asphalt.

Why Reddit was at the center of a massive Dark Web feud
2018-04-30 11:38

Emily Wilson of Terbium Labs explains why Reddit, the so-called 'front page of the internet,' is also a portal to the Dark Web.

Ex-Reddit mogul apologizes for making the world ‘a worse place’
2018-04-24 13:16

"[Reddit] is awful and it’s gonna get worse."

Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration
2018-04-13 12:05

How Russian trolls embraced rule 34 (but Redditors didn't buy it)

While Zuck squirmed, Reddit revealed it found and killed 944 Russian troll factory accounts
2018-04-11 07:06

Posts hit hyper-partisan r/the_donald, CEO says most crimped before 2016 election While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress, Reddit confessed to its own Russian problem.…

Realistic, well-positioned Reddit clone is out to grab users’ login credentials
2018-02-06 21:09

A convincing clone of the popular social news aggregation and discussion site Reddit has been spotted on the reddit.co domain. The author is obviously counting on users not to spot it for what it...

Reddit rolls out 2-factor authentication for users
2018-01-25 20:53

The 234 million or so unique Reddit users are finally getting the option of setting up 2-factor authentication for their account(s). Why is that important? With over 540 million monthly visitors,...