SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I immediately suspected that Experian was still allowing anyone to recreate their credit file account using the same personal information but a different email address, a major authentication failure that was explored in last year’s story, Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do. 9, 2022 and Dec.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. .” In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations.

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