Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

(HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. For starters, change your password. Your new password needs to be hard to guess, and the best way to ensure that is to let a password manager do it for you.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. One weird trick to improve your passwords. Teaching users to be better users is a long game.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

But this isn't an internet age thing, the origins go back way further, originally being used to describe TV viewers being served ads. I think it was around the end of 2012, and they were terrible! I wanted to build a data breach search service. Did that make them the product? What about Why No HTTPS ?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

The first is that it effectively inverted a familiar threat model: Most phishing campaigns try to steal your password, whereas this one leads with it. Also, most of the passwords referenced in the sextortion campaign appear to have been slurped from data breaches that are now several years old.

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