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Google Stored G Suite Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005

Threatpost

Google said it had stored G Suite enterprise users' passwords in plain text since 2005 marking a giant security faux pas.

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Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005

WIRED Threat Level

On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years.

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FFIEC Final Authentication Guidance

Data Breach Today

The Final FFIEC Guidance has been issued and its main intent is to reinforce the 2005 Guidance's risk management framework and update the Agencies' expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, or other controls in the increasingly hostile online environment.

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Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King

Krebs on Security

In 2005, AOL won a $12.8 Hawke had reportedly bragged about the money he earned from spam, but told friends he didn’t trust banks and decided to convert his earnings into gold and platinum bars. That sparked rumors that he had possibly buried his ill-gotten gains on his parents’ Massachusetts property.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). In an early post to Antichat in January 2005, Stanx disclosed that he is from Omsk , a large city in the Siberian region of Russia.

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CyberArk Promotes COO Matt Cohen to Replace CEO Udi Mokady

Data Breach Today

CEO Change Marks First Time Since 2005 Someone Other Than Udi Mokady Is In Charge CyberArk will promote Matt Cohen, 47, to CEO on April 3.

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The Intranet Imperative (2005)

ChiefTech

I wrote this in June 2005. The history of intranets is one of a slow burn of adoption (or innovation, if you like). But the pace of technology change is increasing , email is being challenged. is it time now to dust off the intranet imperative and think about about where we go next? What exactly is an intranet?