Items tagged with Passwords
The most popular passwords are the easiest ones to crack because they're so prevalent, and also because they're incredibly simple. It makes you wonder, who's actually using "123456" to secure access to an account? Surely no one would be that foolish, right? To the contrary (kind of), that string of digits once again...
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Google has issued an apology after passwords disappeared for millions of Windows users. The company reported a significant number of users were unable to find or save passwords in the password manager for Google Chrome for 17 hours and 51 minutes.
For nearly 18 hours, Chrome users around the world found themselves...
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While some might say passwords are on the way out, especially with the advent of passkeys that are regarded as a better solution. However, the extinction of the password isn’t a reality yet. Passwords are still around and they're sometimes terribly not secure, especially if you use one of the top 200 worst passwords for any of your accounts.
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Password managers are not perfect. Recently, LastPass was blamed for millions in stolen neing crypto and KeePass is downplaying password database theft. Bitwarden may ne next to catch some flak. It turns out a penetration test discovered that unlocking a password vault with Windows Hello biometrics could be bypassed...
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You probably don't need an official list to tell you that "123456" is an incredibly weak password (unless you're a CEO, apparently), or that extending it out to "12345678" or even "123456789" are nearly as anemic when it comes to account security. Nevertheless, the folks at NordPass have published an annual list of...
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Earlier in the year, Google implemented support for passkeys in its products to help move folks away from traditional passwords. In theory, this should make people more secure and have an easier time signing into their accounts, and as such, Google is making it the default means of signing in across personal Google...
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Recently, a plugin utilized by over a million WordPress site owners was discovered to have a bug in a prior release that logged passwords in plaintext. While the problem has since been fixed in an update, credentials may still be floating around in logs, so be sure to take a look.
The All-In-One Security (AIOS)...
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Your password requires at least nine characters, one special character, two numbers, your horoscope, three emoji, and a depiction of the current weather outside. If that seems unhinged, wait until you try The Password Game, a fun but absurd password-creating game taking the internet by storm.
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Gone are the days of having one password for all your accounts or simply writing down every password you have on paper. Now, password managers make everyone more secure and passwords easier to manage, hence the name. Enter Google Password Manager, a password manager built directly into Chrome so you can handle all...
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There was always a lingering hope that Netflix might abandon its enforcement of disallowing account sharing outside of the household amid delays in the US rollout. But after testing the waters in a few overseas territories, Netflix has officially begun cracking down on password sharing in the US. The first wave of...
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Kevin Mitnick, a former black hat hooligan-turned-good-guy who spent several years in prison in the 1990s for various computer-related tomfoolery, is showing off a beastly setup outfitted with 30 high-end GeForce graphics cards. We know what you're wondering—can it run Crysis? It certainly has enough firepower to push...
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The password manager KeePass is currently the subject of a debate concerning whether or not a particular design decision should be considered a security vulnerability. At the center of this debate is KeePass’ support of triggers, one of which exports users’ password databases. Threat actors could potentially leverage...
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As we approach the end of the year, cybersecurity outfits inevitably round up and share the weakest passwords detected in the wild over the past 12 months. Some of these are obvious—12345678 is a terrible password that keeps showing up—but a new security report highlights some surprising trends that call into question...
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Back in August of this year, the password manager LastPass suffered a security breach that resulted in the theft of proprietary technical information and portions of the company’s source code. Hackers then used the stolen information to breach LastPass again at the end of November. Shortly after this follow-up breach...
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The CEO of the password manager LastPass, Karim Toubba, has published a blog post on the company’s website disclosing a recent security breach. According to the blog post, this incident affected both LastPass and its affiliate company GoTo, with a similar blog post appearing on the GoTo website. With the help of the...
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Three days ago, users of the sports betting service DraftKings began reporting that their accounts had been hacked. In cases in which the hacked accounts contained funds, users reported the hackers attempting to withdraw their funds to newly added bank cards. Yesterday, DraftKings acknowledged these reports publicly...
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Security analyst Sam Croley is a specialist in password cracking, and has just found a new best friend: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Impressively, the Ada Lovelace architecture flagship graphics card is over twice as fast at password cracking as its direct Ampere architecture predecessor. What this means in practical...
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Pretty much everyone has experienced a moment of fear as they struggle to remember a password to an account they are trying to sign into. Throw into the fray prompts for two-factor authentication, hackers still accessing your pertinent information online, and trying to maintain an online account can feel overwhelming...
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Managing passwords across all your platforms and logins can be a nightmare. You have an account for your bank, social media, smart devices, doctor, gaming platforms, work, and probably a lot more. Fortunately, Google has started rolling out new password manager features to make your password juggling hopefully...
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Cybersecurity experts are constantly trying to improve user account security. This task can be a difficult one when users don’t take basic steps to secure their own accounts. A recent report found that the most commonly used passwords among business executives are “123456” and “password.” However, even accounts...
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It’s not hard to see why Apple, Google, and Microsoft are pushing passwordless logins when cybercriminals are able to leverage malware and phishing attacks to steal passwords. However, bad actors don’t need to actually steal them when their victims use simple, easy-to-guess passwords. Unfortunately, those sorts of...
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Admit it, you use the same password for multiple sites. Even if you don't, a lot of people do because it's just too darn difficult to juggle separate login credentials for a multitude of services and websites that you use or visit on a regular basis. Maybe you employ a password manager to keep track of everything, or...
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