Probably a stupid question, but there was an edict sent out from our CIO's office recently alerting everyone to the risks of transmitting/storing clear-text passwords and asking that it be addressed ...

The company is dancing around the question of what it knew and when it knew it, but the security problem was not a revelation for it this week When Starbucks published the new version of its iOS ...

The popular KeePass password manager is vulnerable to extracting the master password from the application's memory, allowing attackers who compromise a device to retrieve the password even with the ...

Hackers reportedly stole 42 million customer records including email addresses and clear-text passwords from Cupid Media, a network of dating websites. According to Krebs, who claims to have access to ...

a follow-up Regarding our previous item on a Windows Server connect problem, Philip Lamb explains: "The problem arises if the user at any time disables the 'Allow clear text passwords' option when ...

David I. Emery that a debugging switch inadvertently left on in the current release of Lion, version 10.7.3, records in clear text the password needed to open the folder encrypted by the older version ...