Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. And then there's the account holder, the one who chose the password.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

There’s one password management tool which experiences more than its fair share of derision—the oft-maligned Internet password book. These are, as you may expect, physical books which are little more than empty notepads with “Internet password book” written on the front. The big book of passwords. It’s not in your threat model.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. The hacker used that access to send tweets from a variety of popular and trusted accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, as part of a mundane scam -- stealing bitcoin -- but it's easy to envision more nefarious scenarios. (If

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

More Americans than ever are working remotely and seeking out entertainment online, and this increase of internet activity has fueled a dramatic spike in cybercrime. With so much critical data now stored in the cloud, how can people protect their accounts? 3) Activate 2FA on all accounts. 3) Activate 2FA on all accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

What’s more, there are hefty fees involved in moving any ETH mined by Norton or Avira Crypto to an account that the user can cash out, and many users apparently don’t understand they can’t cash out until they at least earn enough ETH to cover the fees.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

. “Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.” ”

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you have a bunch of passwords and manually checking them all would be painful, give this a go: If you use 1Password account you now have a brand new Watchtower integrated with @haveibeenpwned API. My hope is that for many, this will be the prompt they need to make an important change to their online security posture.

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