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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

Troy Hunt

The first one was about HSBC disclosing a "security incident" which, upon closer inspection, boiled down to this: The security incident that HSBC described in its letter seems to fit the characteristics of brute-force password-guessing attempts, also known as a credentials stuffing attack.

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Chart a course to the passwordless future on World Password Day

SC Magazine

Today’s columnist, Jasson Casey of Beyond Identity, offers a path for security teams to move off shared secrets and embrace a passwordless world. It’s World Password Day, do the company’s users still rely on passwords? Has the security team replaced them? Eliminate passwords.

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The Data Breach "Personal Stash" Ecosystem

Troy Hunt

For example, here's Jordan's go at deflecting his role in the ecosystem and yes, this was the entire terms of service: I particularly like this clause: You may only use this tool for your own personal security and data research. You may only search information about yourself, or those you are authorized in writing to do so.

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Mother of all Breaches may contain NEW breach data

Malwarebytes

These shady services, Hunt says, allow interested parties, including criminals, to access records that contain usernames, passwords (including in clear text), email addresses, and IP addresses. It has Terms of Service that include: You may only use this service for your own personal security and research.

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No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked

Troy Hunt

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? Billions of them, in some cases.

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Weekly Update 125

Troy Hunt

But moving forward, it's Microsoft Ignite in Sydney next week and that should be a great event, plus I'm talking about Google's Password Checkup extension and the other credential stuffing list "collections" I keep getting asked about. Twilio is sponsoring my blog this week (they're talking about the PSD2 reg in the EU).

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Intimate Partner Threat

Schneier on Security

Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access -- delete your insecure account, open a new one, change your password.

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