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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Another day, another technology giant hacked. This time, it’s Microsoft’s Indian web store that’s been attacked by the EvilShadow team. The big problem: Microsoft was storing passwords as plain text.
HTC has acknowledged that a software flaw on some of its Android phones means that they openly offer security credentials across the Wi-Fi networks they connect to.
For months, there’s been a steady trickle of sites getting hacked, followed by their usernames and passwords being passed around publicly on the Web. It’s a real and growing problem that’s just going to get worse. Fact: People use the same password on more than one site. So let’s say a list contains the username hello@gmail.com with the password abcd1234. You know that username and password isn’t just used on the site that’s been hacked; it’s incredibly common for people to have one password that they use pretty much everywhere. Because people are stupid.
Swiping your phone or entering an unlock pin to crack it open is fine—we do it all the time, every day. But it’s sort of lacking in sci-fi chic, no? Wouldn’t facial recognition be a lot cooler? Yes.
The iPhone had its security growing pains when it was first released, and now Droid has its own flaw that lets anyone bypass your password screen with just the push of a button.
One of the irritating mosquito-like posters over at 4chan hacked into everyone’s favourite boob-related-adjective Salma Hayek’s MobileMe account and found it laughably easy despite MobileMe’s “security” questions.
