Microsoft

When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks

New research exposes how prompt injection in AI agent frameworks can lead to remote code execution. Learn how these ...

Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign

The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another ...

Crypto gang member gets 6.5 years for role in $230 million heist

A 20-year-old California man was sentenced to 78 months in prison for serving as a home invader and money launderer in a ...
PCMag

The Passphrase Method: The Simple Trick to Creating Unhackable Passwords You’ll Actually Remember

Tired of forgetting passwords or reusing weak ones? The passphrase approach makes strong security easy to remember—and harder ...
PCMag

Researcher Finds Microsoft Edge Stored Passwords Load in Plaintext

Microsoft defends it as a 'design choice,' saying the threat requires the PC to be compromised. But the researcher who ...

Edge browser has a serious password safety problem, but Microsoft says it’s by design

A security researcher found that Microsoft Edge loads all saved passwords into unencrypted memory at startup, keeping them exposed for the entire session even when they are not in use.

Why Edge stores your passwords in plaintext, according to Microsoft

A security researcher found that Edge stores your plaintext passwords in memory when you use the browser to manage them. In a ...
IEEE

Enhancing Password Security through K-Means Clustering and Entropy-Based Classification using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Abstract: Users maintain passwords in order to access systems and accounts, but weak passwords are a severe cybersecurity threat and might cause data breaches. This study proposes a new approach for ...