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Password manager LastPass reveals intrusion into development system

CSO Magazine

LastPass, maker of a popular password management application, revealed Thursday that an unauthorized party gained access to its development environment through a compromised developer account and stole some source code and proprietary technical information. To read this article in full, please click here

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Home Assistant, Pwned Passwords and Security Misconceptions

Troy Hunt

Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use. They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed.

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SHARED INTEL: A foolproof consumer’s guide to creating and managing bulletproof passwords

The Last Watchdog

It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account. You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. And finding that password is even easier.

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The 2021 State of the Auth Report: 2FA Climbs, While Password Managers and Biometrics Trend

Duo's Security Blog

Other factors, such as push notifications and security keys, are more effective in preventing account takeovers. Of All Accounts, Users Perceive Banking as Most Important Respondents continue to have money on their mind, with 93% considering financial accounts the most important to secure, up from 85% in 2019.

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How to Protect Your Accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication

Duo's Security Blog

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) protects your environment by guarding against password weaknesses with strong authentication methods. In today’s blog, we’re unpacking why MFA is a cornerstone topic in this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and how it can keep your organization safe from potentially devastating cyber attacks.

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Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter

Troy Hunt

Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. 6 characters. for my *online banking*.

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

Malwarebytes

On his blog , Troy Hunt has announced a major milestone in the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. If it says a password you use has breached, you know to never use it again. Have I Been Pwned?’.

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