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Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords

Bleeping Computer

Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development. [.]

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Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers

Schneier on Security

Weakest of all was the password for Unix contributor Brian W. None of the passwords included the quotation marks.). I don't remember any of my early passwords, but they probably weren't much better. Kernighan: "/.,/.," representing a three-character string repeated twice using adjacent keys on a QWERTY keyboard.

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No Password Microsoft Accounts, Facebook Smart Glasses, Security.txt Internet Standard

Security Boulevard

The post No Password Microsoft Accounts, Facebook Smart Glasses, Security.txt Internet Standard appeared first on The Shared Security Show. The post No Password Microsoft Accounts, Facebook Smart Glasses, Security.txt Internet Standard appeared first on The Shared Security Show.

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7 Internet Safety Tips for Safer Internet Browsing

Identity IQ

7 Internet Safety Tips for Safer Internet Browsing IdentityIQ With the internet, we can access vast amounts of information with only a click or tap. This year, the total number of internet users worldwide reached 5.18 And as immense as the internet is, so are the risks. Prefer to use password-protected networks.

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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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Half a Million IoT Device Passwords Published

Schneier on Security

It's a list of easy-to-guess passwords for IoT devices on the Internet as recently as last October and November. Useful for anyone putting together a bot network: A hacker has published this week a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers, and IoT (Internet of Things) "smart" devices.

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19 million plaintext passwords exposed by incorrectly configured Firebase instances

Malwarebytes

Three researchers scanned the internet for vulnerable Firebase instances, looking for personally identifiable information (PII). During a sweep of the internet that took two weeks, the researchers scanned over five million domains connected to Google’s Firebase platform. What the researchers discovered was scary.

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