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Password Manager Cheat Sheet: What Is a Password Manager?

Tech Republic Security

This cheat sheet provides an overview of what a password manager is and what it does, helping you keep your online accounts safe and secure.

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Key Lesson from Microsoft’s Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account

The Hacker News

The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn’t a highly technical hack that exploited a zero-day vulnerability – the hackers used a simple password spray attack to take control of

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How to generate secure passwords for your accounts

Tech Republic Security

A password generator can help when you need a strong and complex password to protect an account. The post How to generate secure passwords for your accounts appeared first on TechRepublic.

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GitLab Fixes Password Reset Bug That Allows Account Takeover

Security Boulevard

GitLab is releasing a patch to fix a vulnerability in its email verification process that bad actors can exploit to reset user passwords and take over accounts. in which a change was made that allowed users to reset their password through a secondary email. The flaw, CVE-2023-7028, was introduced in May 2023 in GitLab 16.1.0,

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Password Managers Under Attack, Shady Reward Apps on Google Play, Meta Account Center 2FA Bypass

Security Boulevard

The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the password management vendors.

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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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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. The password cracking software also acts as a dropper for the Sality P2P bot.

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