Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“LastPass in my book is one step above snake-oil. . “And now this is blaming the users — ‘you should have used a longer passphrase’ — not them for having weak defaults that were never upgraded for existing users,” Weaver said. ”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

In 2010, this author received a massive data dump from a source that had hacked into or otherwise absconded with more than four years of email records from ChronoPay — at the time a major Russian online payment provider whose CEO and co-founders were the chief subjects of my 2014 book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime.

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