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Police forces pipe 225 million pwned passwords into ‘Have I Been Pwned?’

Malwarebytes

(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. If it says a password you use has breached, you know to never use it again. For starters, change your password.

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Ransomware news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

And studies have revealed that the newly developed file-encrypting malware is using an Open-source password management library for encryption and is having capabilities of remaining anonymous, ex-filtrate data, and having abilities to give control to remote servers. The third is something astonishing to read!

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Why (almost) everything we told you about passwords was wrong

Malwarebytes

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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If You're Not Paying for the Product, You Are. Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free

Troy Hunt

I think it was around the end of 2012, and they were terrible! I wanted to build a data breach search service. Ok, obvious answer, but I'd just found both my personal and Pfizer email addresses in the Adobe data breach which was somewhere I never expected to see them. Did that make them the product?

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

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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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

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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The Year Targeted Phishing Went Mainstream

Krebs on Security

Also, most of the passwords referenced in the sextortion campaign appear to have been slurped from data breaches that are now several years old. For example, many readers reported that the password they received was the one compromised in LinkedIn’s massive 2012 data breach.

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