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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month – What it Really Means for WordPress Users

SiteLock

2016 marks the 13th year of NCSAM and it was also this year that President Barack Obama officially declared October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. NCSAM 2016 is broken into weekly themes in order to ensure that all citizens are made aware of the steps they can take to ensure their own security online.

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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The Data Breach "Personal Stash" Ecosystem

Troy Hunt

For example, here's Jordan's go at deflecting his role in the ecosystem and yes, this was the entire terms of service: I particularly like this clause: You may only use this tool for your own personal security and data research. You may only search information about yourself, or those you are authorized in writing to do so.