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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

Krebs on Security

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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The Password Game

Schneier on Security

Amusing parody of password rules. BoingBoing : For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.”

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Open Source Pwned Passwords with FBI Feed and 225M New NCA Passwords is Now Live!

Troy Hunt

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. It looks like this: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there. Fast forward to now and that ingestion pipeline is finally live.

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Pwned Passwords Adds NTLM Support to the Firehose

Troy Hunt

I think I've pretty much captured it all in the title of this post but as of about a day ago, Pwned Passwords now has full parity between the SHA-1 hashes that have been there since day 1 and NTLM hashes. So, Chief Pwned Passwords Wrangler Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson got to work and just went ahead and built it all for you.

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Protect Your Passwords for Life for Just $30

Tech Republic Security

Automatically create and save passwords, fill in forms and logins, even securely share passwords and sync across all of your devices via WiFi.

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Passwords Are Terrible (Surprising No One)

Schneier on Security

This is the result of a security audit: More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, and ChangeItN0w!—were

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Vulnerability in the Kaspersky Password Manager

Schneier on Security

A vulnerability (just patched) in the random number generator used in the Kaspersky Password Manager resulted in easily guessable passwords: The password generator included in Kaspersky Password Manager had several problems. All the passwords it created could be bruteforced in seconds. We don’t know.