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Prevent Your Mac from Making Plain-Text Copies of Your Encrypted Emails

If you have the application configured to send and receive encrypted email—messages that should be unreadable for anyone without the right decryption keys—Apple’s digital assistant goes ahead and …
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Some 2000 Facebook staff had access to millions of Facebook users’ passwords… stored in plaintext

Some 2000 Facebook engineers had access to millions of Facebook users' passwords... stored in plaintext

Stretching back as far as 2012, Facebook has been storing the passwords of hundreds of millions of users unencrypted, in plaintext.

And those passwords were searchable by Facebook staff…

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Password managers are storing plain-text master passwords in PC memory – The INQUIRER

  1. Password managers are storing plain-text master passwords in PC memory  The INQUIRER
  2. Password Managers Can Be Vulnerable to Malware Attacks  PCMag
  3. Password managers may leave your online crown jewels ‘exposed in RAM’ to malware – but hey, they’re still better than the alternative  The Register
  4. Password managers have a security flaw, but you should still use one  The Seattle Times
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Plaintext Apple ID passwords included in teen phone monitoring app’s data breach

  1. Plaintext Apple ID passwords included in teen phone monitoring app’s data breach  9to5Mac
  2. TeenSafe phone-monitoring app leaks thousands of Apple ID account logins  TechRadar
  3. Teen phone tracking app exposed thousands of Apple accounts  Engadget
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