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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Google has admitted that some of its enterprise customers’ passwords have been erroneously stored in plaintext, in a security issue dating back 14 years. The tech giant’s VP of engineering, Suzanne ...

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 ...

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 ...

As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern. Companies and schools have been increasing their use of services like Google Drive for some time, and lots of individual ...