Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext. The search giant disclosed the exposure Tuesday but declined to say exactly ...
On Tuesday, Google revealed a bug that left G Suite users' passwords stored in plain text for the last 14 years. For the uninitiated, passwords aren't supposed to be stored in that format, as doing so ...
The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps data encrypted at all times, showing it in plaintext only to ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern ...
Organizations can store account passwords securely by scrambling them with a cryptographic process known as hashing before saving them to their servers. This way, even if someone compromises those ...
Google has announced that it has begun to notify administrators about how some passwords were inappropriately stored on its servers. Google says that its policy is to store user passwords with ...
Apple is investigating an issue raised by a Mac specialist discovered to be storing emails that are supposed to be S/MIME-encrypted as readable files. A database on Apple’s macOS computers is storing ...
The acknowledgement from the social media giant came after a security researcher posted about the issue online. “Security rule 101 dictates that under no circumstances passwords should be stored in ...