The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Until biometrics or a quantum solution change our everyday approach to encryption, passwords remain our first line of defense against data breaches, hackers, and thieves. Proper password hygiene doesn’t require a degree in rocket science. 1) Create sufficiently-complex passwords. But simpler passwords are much easier to hack.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

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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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This is going to be a brief blog post but it's a necessary one because I can't load the data I'm about to publish into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) without providing more context than what I can in a single short breach description. Can I provide the password used? Had these passwords been seen before?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s also the last day of October that the transition to Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month in November begins. For more specific details on each of these topics, we recommend reading the StaySafeOnline.org blog. Never write down your username and passwords. What Does This Have To Do With WordPress?

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