IDG News Service – Hackers who commandeered The Onion’s Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher’s technology team. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group supporting embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has also compromised prominent Twitter accounts, including those of the Associated Press, The Guardian,

The “I forgot my password” button is familiar to everyone, but a friend to no one. It’s annoying to have to stop what you’re doing, wait for an email from the site and then reset your password. The experience is inconvenient and frankly offputting. It’s not popular with websites either, for two reasons: one, because

Cloud computing in general, and private clouds in particular, have emerged as a response to the high cost and lack of agility of traditional approaches to IT. The  needs of IT users and the rate of technological change have increased signifi cantly. At the same time, the need to improve IT effi ciency and reduce

The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is holding a competition aimed at finding the best possible replacement for the cureent SHAs (Secure Hash Algorithms) — SHA-1 and SHA-2. Cryptographers are submitting new mathematical algorithms in order to develop a more secure and robust substitute that will strengthen the hash functions that are used