Daniel Miessler

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

As far as they’re concerned, if you don’t say the name of your password manager 7 times before bed the Dark Web will haunt your closet. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs that is investigating the incident, hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Avoid reusing passwords across different services. Pick strong and complex passwords for all your accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

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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Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at. Also:  5 Android browsers that are better than Chrome (and why I prefer them) To be fair, this is not a new Google capability.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states in that region, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. Two meaningful steps every person can take, right now, is to begin routinely using a password manager and encrypted browsers.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at. Also:  5 Android browsers that are better than Chrome (and why I prefer them) To be fair, this is not a new Google capability.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. I was a delegate to Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, the church's international leadership body, in 2012. I was awarded a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster Air Force Achievement Medal with distinction for meritorious service.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

I think it was around the end of 2012, and they were terrible! The partnership with 1Password several years later is the same again; arguably, it made HIBP more useful for the masses or non-techies that had never given any consideration to a password manager. Did that make them the product? What about Why No HTTPS ?

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

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. – Don’t re-use passwords.

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Zero Day

JUNE 19, 2025

Let's look at some of the issues that went into the creation of something like Alexa: The year is 2012. You can see how different identities allow the AI to provide different perspectives as part of its response. To expand this, you can let the AI do a thought experiment.

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