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GUEST ESSAY: ‘World password day’ reminds us to embrace password security best practices

The Last Watchdog

We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021. Did you know that this unconventional celebration got its start in 2013, and that it’s now an official holiday on the annual calendar? Every year, the first Thursday in May serves as a reminder for us to take control of our personal password strategies. Use a password manager.

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New Pluralsight Course: Bug Bounties for Companies

Troy Hunt

Try publishing something to the internet - anything - and see how it long it takes before something nasty is probing away at it. There's a lot you can do in terms of defences , but nothing you can do to stop randoms on the internet having a red hot go at breaking into your things.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Krebs on Security

In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account.

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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 Use strong, non-dictionary passwords for sites and services, use a password manager to store them, and never reuse passwords across sites. million student records from the local community college system I attend.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Two meaningful steps every person can take, right now, is to begin routinely using a password manager and encrypted browsers. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. million from U.S.

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Ferocious Kitten: 6 years of covert surveillance in Iran

SecureList

From 2015 to February 2018, the malware was compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, whereas in February 2018, the developers moved to Visual Studio 2017 and embedded the malware’s logic within Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes. argument: path to file to upload. – List files and repositories.

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The Wages of Password Re-Use: Your Money or Your Life

Krebs on Security

The long-running Breadcrumbs series here tracks how cybercriminals get caught, and it’s mostly through odd connections between their online and offline selves scattered across the Internet. Interestingly, one of the more common connections involves re-using or recycling passwords across multiple accounts.

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