At one point, though, Ashley Madison appears to have stored passwords without bothering to either hash or encrypt them, two security practices that hinder hackers from being able to use passwords if ...

When you think of cyberattacks that compromise your account security, maybe you envisage Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in your software, or perhaps a hacker using ...

It’s been nearly a month since Ashley Madison’s data exploded across the Web exposing the identities of millions of its users, but the effects of the hack continue to be felt in new ways. There are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. By mapping out what the report refers to as a heat map of ...