Companies, like Facebook, hash and salt passwords — two ways of further scrambling passwords — to store passwords securely.
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Such things include Wi-Fi passwords, Apple Keychains (encrypted collections of passwords) and passwords for third-party services.
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Head over to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > AutoFill Passwords.
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Reused passwords are flagged in Settings > Passwords & Accounts.
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From Settings, pick Passwords & Accounts then Website & App Passwords.
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People have like 20 passwords … I don't want 20 passwords.
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KS: Then passwords, same thing with passwords and network names.
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"The statement also recommends users be "diligent online by not sharing their passwords with others, creating unique passwords and changing passwords frequently.
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To see whether you're using any weak passwords, or duplicating passwords across accounts, open the Safari menu and choose Preferences then Passwords.
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Back in the 1990s I started writing about passwords and I said that passwords were for tree houses and passwords were invented in 1964.
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Storing passwords in readable plaintext is an insecure way of storing passwords.
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From Settings, go to Passwords & Accounts then Website & App Passwords to check.
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The passwords that were acquired were hashed versions of users' original passwords.
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Go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Website & App Passwords and enter your passcode.
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Change your passwords if you've been pwned, and don't use repeat passwords.
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KS: And you like their scrambled passwords versus ... I like their passwords.
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It can also help you spot passwords you've reused too often: Go to Settings then Passwords & Accounts and Website & App Passwords to take a look.
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Change passwords regularly, and don't forget to secure your mobile devices with passwords.
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The passwords are located in the Passwords & Accounts section of the iPhone's Settings app.
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The troubling thing is the databases contain "dehashed" passwords, which means the methods used to scramble those passwords into unreadable strings has been cracked, fully exposing the passwords.
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Sure enough, the bad passwords of 2018 looked much like the bad passwords of 2017.
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Shortly thereafter, we invalidated everyone's passwords, even though we believed the hashed passwords were relatively safe.
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You can control Chrome's ability to remember your passwords on the Passwords Settings page as well.
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If you're feeling overwhelmed with passwords or want to develop harder passwords, consider using a password manager.
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The fifth regulation concerns how passwords are stored by Facebook: The company must now keep passwords encrypted.
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They're great for storing your passwords, but also for encouraging you to use better, stronger, unique passwords.
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It'll let you know if it sees three problems in three categories: passwords you've used more than once, passwords that have appeared in data breaches leaked online, and passwords that aren't strong enough.
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On the other hand, when it comes to protecting passwords, there seems to be no end to the pitfalls that one has to avoid, including weak passwords, shared passwords, unchanged passwords, default passwords… And even if you stay true to all the security best practices, some things remain out of your control, including how committed your provider is to encrypt and protect your credentials on its server.
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As some accounts have multiple passwords, that means there are over 427 million total passwords available for sale.
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Stolen passwords pose extensive security risks because attacks using stolen passwords often do not set off any alarms.
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But then that is still using passwords back and forth to the remote service, or something like passwords.
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Although, to be clear, Hunt's Pwned Passwords service is not intended for people to check their actual passwords.
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The result is a lot of wasted time having to guess passwords, email confirmation codes, or reset passwords.
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You should also change any default passwords on your smart devices — and use different passwords for each one.
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"The stolen data DID NOT include any account passwords, variations of passwords, hashed passwords, game account data or personal player information such as full names, addresses or other billing and payment information," Braun said.
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Yahoo works hard to keep our users safe, and we always encourage our users to create strong passwords, or give up passwords altogether by using Yahoo Account Key, and use different passwords for different platforms.
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On iPhone, go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > AutoFill Passwords > enable AutoFill and select the name of your password manager.
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The company suggests that guests make unique passwords for their account and not reuse passwords from other online accounts.
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Even if this was only the passwords for the app and not Facebook, many people reuse passwords across services.
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Here's SplashData's top 10 worst passwords, which the company desperately hopes will convince people to please change their passwords.
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The app will save passwords for you in your browser, and its mobile apps will handle your passwords elsewhere.
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Indeed, passwords themselves are often the most valuable treasure for attackers, given how many people reuse passwords between accounts.
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Roaming Passwords are now on-board, giving users the ability to sync passwords cross platform on mobile and desktop.
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Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.
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In the meantime, Heid advises that users change their passwords and ensure that passwords are different across different services.
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Simple numerical passwords remain an easy go-to; six of the top 10 passwords are comprised of only numbers.
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"Most people reuse passwords or make multiple versions of the same passwords that are easy to hack," she said.
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"Although we only store encrypted (for synchronized passwords) or hashed and salted (for authentication) passwords in this system, we have reset all the Opera sync account passwords as a precaution," it explained in a blog post.
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On the next page, you can disable auto-filling passwords by switching "AutoFill Passwords" off, or you can edit password data on a site-by-site or app-by-app basis by tapping "Website & App Passwords."
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After Buzzfeed published its story, TechCrunch independently reported that 1,562 people&aposs Ring passwords were uploaded to a dark web server, noting that the passwords appear to be a subset of the passwords reported by Buzzfeed.
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This cartoon is going to walk through how we think about passwords, and how we should be thinking about passwords.
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The company said it is invalidating the passwords of the accounts impacted and contacting affected members to reset their passwords.
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The company says it is invalidating the passwords of the accounts impacted and contacting affected members to reset their passwords.
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A security researcher has found on the dark web 1,562 unique email addresses and passwords associated with Ring doorbell passwords.
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Another finding: People are still using terrible passwords: 22019 percent of confirmed breaches involved leveraging weak, default or stolen passwords.
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A password manager, such as 1Password, LastPass or Dashlane, helps you create unique, strong passwords for all your websites and securely stores the passwords for you — no more passwords in emails, notebooks or on Post-it notes.
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People too often use passwords that are too easy to guess or crack through brute force, or use same passwords across dozens of accounts, or don't do enough to keep them passwords out of the hands of hackers.
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And since it's a best practice to keep your passwords fresh, Dashlane automatically changes your stored passwords on a regular basis.
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The way to enable this is to head over to Settings, scroll down to Passwords & Accounts, and tap on Autofill Passwords.
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Even though our brains aren't actually that bad at remembering passwords, it's almost impossible to remember dozens of unique, strong passwords.
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SplashData analyzed more than 5 million passwords leaked on the internet and found that people are still using easily guessable passwords.
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As per industry standard, Twitter hashes passwords using bcrypt, which replaces text passwords with random numbers and letters in its system.
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If you are one of the people using Trello to store lists of passwords, stop it and go change your passwords.
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These are apps that keep track of passwords for you, automatically help you create good passwords, and simplify your online life.
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Use a password manager, like SplashID or LastPass, to organize and protect passwords, generate random passwords and automatically log into websites.
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Goldberg answered your questions about the future of passwords and password management, including the big one: Are passwords here to stay?
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Even though our brains aren't actually that bad at remembering passwords , it's almost impossible to remember dozens of unique, strong passwords.
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The data included user email addresses and hashed passwords — passwords that are hidden for security purposes through a one-way encryption function, meaning that the hackers would not be able to view the actual passwords corresponding to user accounts.
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It's possible that the passwords were obtained by password spraying, a technique hackers use to guess passwords, or credential stuffing, where hackers take existing sets of exposed or breached usernames and passwords matched against different websites to access accounts.
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Use strong passwords — which include a combination of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols — and use different passwords for each account.
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"In addition, we encourage customers to set strong passwords, change passwords regularly, and keep Skype up to date," the Skype spokesperson said.
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Those are concerning results: Experts recommend choosing passwords that aren't easily guessed and having different passwords for all the services you use.
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Plus, bulk import passwords from all major password managers or a CSV file Encrypt text notes: Software license keys, WiFi passwords, etc.
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So, once again, please change your passwords on all sites where you reused it, and for the future, please stop reusing passwords.
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Although Cloudflare hasn't found any passwords in the leaks, some security experts have recommended that customers reset their passwords, just in case.
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Some password managers store your passwords encrypted in the cloud, so even if the company gets hacked, your passwords will be safe.
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Go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > AutoFill Passwords; set the toggle to on, and tap the LastPass option to integrate it with Password Autofill.
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Also, dedicated apps can generate strong passwords for you and autofill any passwords outside the browser, like in your banking or shopping apps.
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Microsoft is aiming to reduce our reliance on passwords, and one way it's achieving that is through Microsoft Accounts that don't have passwords.
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Password managers don't just store your passwords — they help you generate and save strong, unique passwords when you sign up to new websites.
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There, the company said user passwords were stored "unmasked in an internal log," and that users should change their passwords as a result.
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They were advised to change their passwords and, if the old passwords were shared with any other sites, to change those as well.
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We are taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords.
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Here are the most likely scenarios: Remember: once you've transferred your passwords over, delete them from your browser and stop saving passwords there.
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Although the passwords were unreadable, Flipboard said passwords prior to March 14, 2012 were scrambled using the older, weak hashing SHA-1 algorithm.
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The associated passwords are encrypted through a variety of algorithms, but users are still advised to change passwords and implement two-factor authentication.
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Your iPhone keeps a list of all your saved passwords, and has a menu to let you find passwords when you need them.
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You can use Settings to delete passwords you no longer need, edit them, or use Settings to open websites to revise your passwords.
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Twitter – Twitter urged its users to change their passwords, after a glitch in its internal computer system caused some passwords to be readable.
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Not only should you use strong passwords, but you should also regularly change passwords that have been in use for a long time.
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But this system also generally allows someone with the phone number to reset the passwords on these accounts without knowing the original passwords.
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Some of the tips are straightforward, like changing your passwords and using a password manager instead of reusing passwords from site to site.
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"T-Mobile US customer care representatives cannot see passwords, and we do not store passwords in plain text," a T-Mobile US spokesperson said.
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We encourage you to use "strong" passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols) with your account.
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Slack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by the historical data breach.
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And even though our brains aren't actually that bad at remembering passwords, it's almost impossible to remember twenty or more unique and strong passwords.
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By the 9th, the company had begun filtering out and securing passwords it accidentally scooped up, and it's since destroyed any passwords it received.
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In raw form, it comprises 2.7 billion rows of email addresses and passwords, including over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.
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All of the passwords were encrypted, or "hashed," but one of Motherboard's sources said they had cracked 90% of the passwords in three days.
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Four in 10 surveyed foresaw passwords becoming a hassle and 75 percent were concerned about the number of passwords they would have to remember.
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It also calls for staffers to have long, random and unique passwords for their accounts and to use password managers to track those passwords.
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Twitter is recommending that all of its users change their passwords after the company discovered a bug that exposed passwords on an internal system.
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Unfortunately, much of the oft-repeated advice on passwords is often incorrect, including that from login forms complimenting users on their supposedly strong passwords.
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A new California law will require unique, secure passwords for all devices sold in the state that come with pre-programmed passwords by 2020.
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Many people reuse the same passwords or create passwords containing letters and numbers that are relatively easy to guess — like birthdays or phone numbers.
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Even so, users frequently use similar passwords on different sites, so stolen passwords can be used to gain access to other sites as well.
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Computer users continue to use wildly insecure passwords to protect their online accounts, according to the results of an annual survey of popular passwords.
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These are apps or browser extensions that keep track of passwords for you, automatically help you create good passwords, and simplify your online life.
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There is one flaw to all this: If you already use shitty passwords—and unless you've made a point to craft long, complex passwords that you never duplicate for multiple uses, just assume you do—you're going to have to change all of your passwords.
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Safari now also automatically creates, autofills and stores strong passwords when users create new online accounts and flags reused passwords so users can change them.
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The 2018 Worst Passwords of the Year list was determined after SplashData evaluated over 5 million passwords that have leaked online in the last year.
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Credit Karma users can even specifically view which of their passwords are no longer safe to use so that they know which passwords to change.
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In this instance, after again refusing to reveal his passwords, he says he was handed a leaflet stating it is now compulsory to surrender passwords.
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While passwords were stored in a hashed form, making them harder to decrypt, it's recommended the site's users reset their passwords regardless as a precaution.
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CYBERCOM hackers obtained the passwords to multiple Islamic State administrator accounts, deleted battlefield footage, and changed the passwords, locking the administrators out, the report says.
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As always, we encourage players to protect their accounts by not re-using passwords and using strong passwords, and not sharing account information with others.
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Don't accept default passwords for your devices, and make sure that any passwords you do set are different from those you use on other services.
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Usernames and passwords for more than 43 million accounts were taken in the breach, although the passwords are secured with the strong hashing algorithm bcrypt.
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The eighth annual list of worst passwords of the year is based on SplashData's evaluation of more than 5 million passwords leaked on the internet.
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With the password manager, it not only remembers all of these different passwords and allows me to have different passwords for all of these sites.
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Memorizing unique passwords for dozens of accounts ain't easy, though, so storing passwords in a password manager will let the tech do the heavy lifting.
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The data contained usernames, email addresses, and passwords that appear to be scrambled with the SHA-2 algorithm, making the passwords near impossible to unscramble.
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Setting up a new phone is a flurry of entering passwords, transferring contact data, downloading must-have social media apps, and entering even more passwords.
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You&aposll then be able to go in and manage your passwords by going back into your Google profile&aposs "Passwords" section, as depicted above.
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The list of passwords was uploaded on Tuesday to an anonymous dark web text-sharing site, commonly used to share stolen passwords and illicit materials.
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" It said it was "taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords.
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Fourteen percent of respondents said they share work-related passwords, while 21 percent admitted to reusing work passwords for other online services—another huge no-no.
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"Attackers don't go and blindly try all eight letter passwords and all nine letter passwords," Jeffrey Goldberg, security guru for the 1Password password manager, told Gizmodo.
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For now the only truly, proven, solution to protecting your devices is to keep the software updated, the devices protected by passwords, and those passwords secure.
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While email addresses were stored in plaintext, passwords were reportedly stored using the outdated hash function MD5, an algorithm for scrambling passwords considered insecure for decades.
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As for Chrome's autofill feature that allows users to save usernames, passwords, addresses and more, Google has stored more than 9.1 billion different forms and passwords.
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It's all another step toward a future where hopefully we don't have to worry about remembering complex passwords, having a password manager, or avoiding reusing passwords.
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In the blog, Google says it "won't bother you about outdated passwords you've already reset or merely weak passwords," like the ones topping this abysmal list.
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It also cited the recent news of 117 million LinkedIn users having their usernames and passwords stolen, which caused the site to reset many users' passwords.
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Enter the password manager: software that keeps track of your various passwords for you, and can even auto-generate super complicated and long passwords for you.
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While initially the company said only about six million passwords were stolen, LinkedIn acknowledged in May 2016 that the number was more than 100 million passwords.
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"The investigation indicates that the affected information included usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords – the majority with the hashing function called bcrypt used to secure passwords."
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The passwords appear to be hashed with the SHA1 algorithm, meaning hackers may be able to crack the hashes and obtain some of the original passwords.
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Members of the porn site xHamster should be changing their passwords today after a set of nearly 380,000 usernames, emails and poorly hashed passwords appeared online.
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You can also create your own passwords, and Dashlane will analyze how hacker-resistant they are and flag any passwords that have already been used elsewhere.
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We always encourage our users to create strong passwords (here are some tips), or, even better, eliminate use of passwords altogether by using Yahoo Account Key.
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The app is nowhere near as developed as password managers like 1Password, Dashlane, LastPass and others as it lacks common features like the ability to add, edit or delete passwords; suggest complex passwords; or alert you to potentially compromised passwords resulting from data breaches, among other things.
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Users will be able to check their passwords to find out if they've been breached, and will be nudged to change their passwords if they're not secure.
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" He added, "As always, we encourage players to protect their accounts by not re-using passwords and using strong passwords, and not sharing account information with others.
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Hangzhou Xiongmai devices were vulnerable because they didn't force users to change the passwords that connect the devices to the internet, leaving the devices with default passwords.
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The company said it has contacted G Suite administrators to change those impacted passwords, and has reset passwords for those users who have not done so already.
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"Passwords that are too short yield to brute force attacks as well as to dictionary attacks using words and commonly chosen passwords," the NIST guidelines remind us.
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New breach: The "Collection #1" credential stuffing list began broadly circulating last week and contains 772,904,991 unique email addresses with plain text passwords (now in Pwned Passwords).
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The obvious takeaway is: It's more important to use unique passwords for all of your accounts and services than for all those passwords to be ironclad-strong.
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This is a measure of internal and external security — both so Facebook employees can't see user passwords but also so hackers can't retrieve passwords stored without encryption.
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Password managers can generate long, difficult-to-guess passwords and automatically save them across websites, making it easy to keep your passwords diverse and hard to crack.
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If you have trouble remembering passwords, you may want to use a password manager, software that generates random passwords for multiple websites and stores them for you.
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Lorrie Cranor, penned a blog, highlighting studies that found that people who are required to change passwords regularly select wearier passwords and change them in predictable ways.
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Encrypting user passwords and regularly scanning to see whether any passwords are being kept in vulnerable, plain-text format (as was discovered in March of this year).
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Nearly 20 percent of the problems came from credential management – things like making it too easy to recover passwords by not encrypting them or hardcoding default passwords.
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The announcement states that usernames and passwords to the service have been compromised, although it does not say whether the passwords were in plain text or hashed.
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The keys cards are embedded with one of an innumerable amount of potential passwords — too many to fire off possible passwords at a door until it opens.
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These are two processes that encode the passwords in a way that makes it hard to find out the real passwords even if someone steals the hashes.
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This means people can move beyond using easy-to-remember passwords like "123456" and use longer, more complex passwords that are more difficult for hackers to crack.
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To see all of your passwords, and to see which ones Safari has detected as weak or duplicated, open Preferences from the Safari menu and choose Passwords.
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Some security teams obtain lists of previously breached passwords that make their way online, scramble them in the same format that the company stores passwords, and find matches.
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It intuitively manages browser passwords and other sensitive data across multiple devices, and has the added bonus of being able to generate random passwords for you as well.
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Like any good password manager, Password Boss stores and auto-fills usernames and passwords on all your accounts, plus it generates strong passwords composed of random character strings.
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Most often, the passwords will be encrypted or hashed, so the hacker will have to crack the passwords, which is where choosing a good password comes into play.
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"We are taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords," LinkedIn said in a statement.
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By scrambling lists of weak or stolen passwords using the same algorithm, companies can match weak passwords against their own databases and proactively send out password reset emails.
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Nearly 32 million of the Dropbox passwords are secured with the strong hashing function bcrypt, meaning that hackers are unlikely to obtain many of the users' actual passwords.
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These tools let you keep all your passwords in a digital vault that can be opened with one master password, and they can also automatically generate complex passwords.
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It can create strong passwords for you, store them securely, and automatically log you into sites and apps, so you don't have to go searching for your passwords.
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"Unfortunately, we're so reliant on passwords at this point, but passwords are absolutely the weakest link," said Tim Weber, security services director for ADNET Technologies in Farmington, Conn.
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Google found that most passwords are obtained in two ways: deceptive e-mail phishing and "third-party breaches," such as hackers scraping passwords from a massive corporation like Equifax.
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Typically, we've seen companies try to locate stolen passwords on the "Dark Web," the black market of the internet, and set up warning systems when those passwords show up.
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Changing passwords or using a password manager can also help, so that you can rest assured any passwords displayed in an alarming subject line are no longer in use.
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LeakedSource notes that the top 50 passwords from those cracked account for over 6 million passwords – or 1.5 percent of the total, to give you a sense of scale.
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A password manager is an app—essentially a digital safe—that keeps all your passwords secure and helps you create different, strong passwords for each one of your accounts.
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To protect against these type of attacks, we always recommend that users always use strong passwords, not use those same passwords across sites and turn on two-factor authentication.
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To protect against these type of attacks, we always recommend that users always use strong passwords, not use those same passwords across sites, and turn on two-factor authentication.
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Password management firm SplashData released its annual "Worst Passwords List," revealing that humans have remained rather indifferent to choosing unique, secure passwords since the company's first report in 2011.
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" Mirai spreads by scanning the internet for devices that have the old-fashioned remote access telnet protocol enabled and have easy to guess passwords such as "123456" or "passwords.
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The victims likely used easy-to-guess passwords, or passwords that had been compromised and circulated online as part of a previous data breach at another service or website.
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In recent months, it's also been offering to suggest strong passwords for new accounts, and now it'll check your existing passwords too, which is what's prompting those pop-ups.
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Previously, the company has blamed its users for poor password practices, saying hackings have been a result of weak passwords or re-using passwords that have been previously compromised.
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Users typically lose control of their accounts either because they've reused passwords from other sites that have been compromised, or they chose extremely common passwords that hackers could guess.
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Remembering multiple passwords is difficult, but password managers like 1Password or LastPass can help you keep your passwords secure but on hand for when you need to use them.
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You may want to delete passwords from Firefox if they're no longer relevant, or you share the computer with people who you don't want having access to those passwords.
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" - Kim, 224 "Changed the passwords to his accounts.
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In response, Pinkas said he has increased user and password security on Jabbim, including hashing all passwords with bcrypt, an algorithm that makes passwords much harder for hackers to crack.
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Former Federal Trade Commission chief technologist Lorrie Cranor said in a 2016-dated blog post that forcing users to change their passwords every so often can result in weaker passwords.
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Back then, the hackers behind the breach only posted 6.5 million encrypted passwords online, and it wasn't clear whether the incident affected more than the people whose passwords were leaked.
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While the original post said tens of thousands of Instagram user passwords had been exposed, Facebook said it has since discovered many more Instagram passwords exposed in the same way.
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While the original post said tens of thousands of Instagram user passwords had been exposed, Facebook said it has since discovered many more Instagram passwords exposed in the same way.
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Hackers stole email addresses, passwords, birth dates, telephone numbers and more in the attack, but did not access passwords in clear text, payment card data or information about bank accounts.
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The prior week, they let students borrow laptops and internet hotspots, taught them how to set up passwords and advised families to log in and make sure the passwords worked.
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If you must create your own passwords, try creating long, complex passwords consisting of nonsensical phrases or one-sentence summaries of strange life events and add numbers and special characters.
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I use an app called 1Password to manage my passwords, and I have a hundred different entries in there, all with different passwords because that's the right thing to do.
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And although the document indicates that customers will be prompted periodically by the system to change the passwords, the document instructs customers to re-use passwords in some cases—alternating between two of them—and in other cases to simply change a number appended to the end of some passwords to change them.
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This includes re-using their same password on various sites (65 percent of employees do); sharing passwords insecurely (1 in 3 do); or using weak passwords (63 percent of enterprise data breaches involved hackers using weak, default or stolen passwords.) As of May, Dashlane reported over 5 million users in 150 countries.
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SplashData does offer some tips to protect your data, including the use of passphrases of 12 characters or more with mixed types of characters, using different passwords for each login, and protecting assets and personal identity by using a password manager to organize passwords, generate secure random passwords and automatically log into websites.
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Nearly 32 million of the passwords are secured with the strong hashing function bcrypt, meaning it is unlikely that hackers will be able to obtain many of the users' actual passwords.
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The passwords and login signals relay back and forth from the phone in order to log into various services, and administrators can assign passwords to be reset on a regular basis.
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If Twitter's database of passwords gets hacked, which has already happened, and it doesn't use proper methods to hide passwords from hackers, it's still your problem if your password gets taken.
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If you follow the secure password rules and have different passwords for each of your accounts it isn't completely necessary to change all of your accounts' passwords if one is hacked.
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Google estimates that about 17 percent of its users re-use their passwords across accounts, leaving their accounts vulnerable if these passwords are exposed during a data breach at another company.
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Facebook said Thursday that it stored millions of Instagram passwords without proper security, expanding a disclosure in March that Facebook passwords had been left visible and unprotected inside the company's servers.
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Netflix, Facebook and Spotify too have all proactively reset account passwords in the aftermath of third-party data breaches by obtaining the data set and matching exposed passwords against their databases.
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The data includes user email addresses and passwords hashed with the notoriously weak MD5 algorithm, meaning hackers will likely be able to obtain a number of users' plaintext passwords as well.
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According to Yahoo's announcement, the majority of passwords were hashed with the strong hashing function bcrypt, meaning that hackers will have a much harder time at obtaining many users' real passwords.
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Both will pop in to save your passwords, both will add your ID and passwords automatically to your apps, and both will recommend random combinations that will keep bad actors guessing.
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And they're also "salted," which means a series of random bytes at the end of the passwords was added before they got hashed, a good practice to hide the real passwords.
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Devices designed to brute-force or guess your cellphone passwords are becoming cheaper and more accessible, so we recommend using alphanumeric passwords of at least 20763 characters to unlock your phone.
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Other new passwords this year were '123456456,' '21,' '123456,' '!
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In the pane on the left, tap "Passwords & Accounts."
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The user experience for these most modern services is similar to what WebAuthn will bring, but passwords are still underpinning the process—these tools just make it easier to manage those passwords.
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Put less simply, Sticky Password manages all your passwords and personal data, automatically logs you in to sites, fills in every form for you, and generates extra-strong new passwords for you.
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"To protect against these type of attacks," the company says, "we always recommend that users always use strong passwords, not use those same passwords across sites, and turn on two-factor authentication."
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According to Instagram, some users who used that feature had their passwords included in a URL in their web browser, and that the passwords were stored on Facebook's servers, Instagram's parent company.
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Assuming you use unique passwords for each account online — and you definitely should — any of your passwords contained in the dataset would only gain a hacker access to one specific online service.
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The blog says this is part of an effort to crack down on stolen passwords, and banning common passwords will make it harder for hackers to get into accounts just by guessing.
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Passwords are all well and good (when they work), but if someone has physical access to your hard drive, even the best passwords may not be enough to keep your data safe.
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Note that by doing so, you're also resetting Wi-Fi networks and passwords, cellular settings, and VPN and APN settings, so you'll have to re-enter any previously stored Wi-Fi passwords.
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Maintain as few online accounts as possible, delete those you no longer use, don't reuse passwords, and don't allow your computer to remember passwords, said Jason McNew, CEO of Stronghold Cyber Security.
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Instead, due to recent data dumps of old breaches of usernames and passwords from MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr, the services are proactively telling some users to change their passwords just in case.
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In a blog post, the Chrome engineers behind the feature explain that Google uses hashed and encrypted copies of passwords, and checks those against passwords people type in using an encrypted key.
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Modern password managers, such as LastPass, Dashlane and 1Password simplify password security by automatically generating unique passwords for every site that you visit and then plugging those passwords into websites for you.
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This will be particular useful for consumers, especially when Microsoft recently discovered that 44 million Microsoft Accounts have passwords that have been reused and leaked in various databases of 3 billion passwords.
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Wireless synchronization for passwords is a necessity: You don't want to be locked out of a service on your smartphone because you left your laptop containing all your passwords at work, for instance.
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Biometric security may assist people to keep their phones from being used by others, but PINs and passwords can generally override these measures, and social pressure to share passwords can mitigate device security.
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User passwords are typically protected with encryption (a process known as hashing), but a string of errors led certain Facebook-branded apps to leave passwords accessible to as many as 20,000 company employees.
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A threat-scanning service can't actually fix their issues — like their use of default passwords, UPnP left on by default, root passwords in the firmware or a telnet port left open, for example.
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"As far as passwords go, they are widely recognized by security experts as a very poor authentication mechanism, mostly due to people's inability to choose long, unguessable passwords," he told CNBC via email.
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While passwords themselves can be bypassed, it's still important to keep passwords strong to protect against brute force attacks, which is when hackers try guessing your password over and over until they're successful.
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By storing passwords in a single place protected by a master password or a biometric — such as a fingerprint — users can take their strong and uniquely generated passwords with them wherever they go.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is urging Twitter users to change their passwords after the company announced last week that a bug had exposed all of its users' passwords on an internal database.
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As part of a list of default credentials that the malware uses to target computers, there are the following passwords: love, secret, sex, god, the four most common passwords according to the movie.
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Because Dropbox stores its user passwords hashed and salted, that's technically accurate — it seems that hackers were only able to obtain hashed files of Dropbox user passwords and were unable to crack them.
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I can't remember such a self-own since the days when CNBC tried to teach people about passwords by asking them to give them up and send their passwords over an insecure connection.
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Earlier this month, hackers accessed the passwords of thousands of Amazon Ring camera owners — however, Amazon has insisted that those passwords were stolen from a third party, and not Amazon&aposs own systems.
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Users' passwords were not exposed in the hack, Instagram said.
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None of his passwords are memorable because they are random.
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The passwords were hashed using the notoriously weak MD5 algorithm.
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Roughly 53 million unique passwords were dumped online this week.
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To get your email password, cybercriminals have bots guess passwords.
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You can also view all your passwords on the web.
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The databases did not include passwords nor credit card details.
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They could force users to change default usernames and passwords.
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LastPass is not currently asking users to update any passwords.
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The free tier securely stores your passwords on one device.
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Because storing passwords in your browser is a terrible idea!
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PixelPin: a secure authentication system using pictures instead of passwords
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Good password managers can generate strong, random passwords for you.
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But most companies aren't yet ready to replace passwords entirely.
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No passwords were taken in the breach, the company said.
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Update all your passwords to make them long and strong.
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If you thought passwords will soon be dead, think again.
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And sometimes passwords can be guessed and are easily hackable.
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You can sync your passwords across devices using iCloud Keychain.
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The company said there is no need to change passwords.
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Use strong passwords -- and make sure your kids do, too.
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Facebook will be notifying the users whose passwords were affected.
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"Don't blame end users for bad passwords," he told me.
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Without a second factor, passwords are just so much dross.
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Holden added that almost none of the passwords were encrypted.
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Passwords weren't stolen, so you don't need to change yours.
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She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents.
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Who knows, eventually we might all use strong passwords. Imagine!
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In fact, you don't even need to remember passwords anymore.
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And not having to enter any passwords is a relief.
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The plaintext passwords date back to 2012, according to Krebs.
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In April, it expanded that mistake to include Instagram passwords.
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More people than you'll ever know have your online passwords.
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The technology that makes those passwords matter is called encryption.
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The golden age of passwords is coming to a close.
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Still, it urged all users to consider changing their passwords.
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The best passwords of all look like total nonsense. 2.
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That includes creating strong online passwords, and revising them frequently.
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It also adds in support for sharing passwords with teams.
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Consider this your daily reminder to change those passwords, fam.
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Anchorage ditches usernames, passwords, email addresses and phone numbers completely.
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In the affair site's case, the passwords were similarly dumb.
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Twitter uses a bcrypt, a hashing function that encrypts passwords.
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They could just ask up front for all your passwords.
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You can also put your own passwords in there, too.
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Instead, highly secure and complex usernames and passwords were used.
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Use passwords specific to each website you hold accounts at.
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StockX admits 'suspicious activity' led to resetting passwords without warning
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Another issue with passwords is that people follow similar patterns.
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Especially if you have different emails and passwords for each.
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Use different passwords for different websites, and change them frequently.
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And they use [passwords] like '1234' and really basic stuff.
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Once logged in, it will automatically input passwords for you.
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At some point we're not going to have all passwords.
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Overall this was another great reminder to never reuse passwords.
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California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices
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It is also invalidating their passwords if they used one.
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It's not just about protecting passwords and credit cards, though.
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You can see this list of passwords at any time.
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Cybersecurity professionals strongly recommend using different passwords for different services.
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The security breach involved user names, email addresses and passwords.
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Ms. Schwab says most people won't need to have passwords.
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Today I'm 71 years old and we're still using passwords.
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Storing passwords in plain text is a poor security practice.
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We reccomend LastPass and 1Password to keep your passwords secure.
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While also storing all the passwords I can never remember?
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These apps can also automatically create complex passwords for you.
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In fact, you should always be changing your passwords regularly.
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The microchip replaces passwords, ID badges and even credit cards.
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Will he give the Russians the White House computer passwords?
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Forgetting passwords is a frustrating fact of everyday life today.
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Instead, the choice is made to keep using forgotten passwords.
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The data includes email addresses, usernames, and poorly hashed passwords.
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Your passwords may not be frozen forever in Firefox, though.
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Documents suggest that passwords and device IDs were also collected.
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So I'm constantly changing passwords and doing stuff like that.
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KS: The issues are some people break up their passwords.
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Even if those "new things" are someone else's phone passwords.
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KS: I'm going to change all my passwords right now.
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You can still refuse to answer questions on constitutional grounds or decline to turn over passwords, but more complicated measures like duress passwords could potentially get you held up on charges of obstructing justice.
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"To prevent the risk of hacking, users should only use trusted and secure internet connections, strong passwords, different passwords for each account and device and, if possible, not the main user's email," Guerra said.
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On Wednesday, the company announced its new Password Checkup feature will automatically check all your saved passwords for security problems and alert you if passwords have been exposed in a third-party data breach.
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"Right now we're giving users bad instructions about how to create passwords, we're giving them poor feedback about whether their password is good, and then we're surprised when they create poor passwords," Bauer said.
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Although the passwords in the breach were hashed, they were done so with the notoriously weak MD5 algorithm, meaning that plenty of the passwords could be figured out with the use of online tools.
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Yahoo's already started doing this, and the strong hash on the passwords means it will take a lot of time and computing power before any criminals can actually get the passwords in unencrypted form.
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In two of the cases, the passwords for the devices were deployed without changing the default manufacturer's passwords and in the third instance the latest security update had not been applied to the device.
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Note that by resetting your network settings, you're also resetting Wi-Fi networks and passwords, cellular settings, and VPN and APN settings, so be prepared to re-enter any previously stored Wi-Fi passwords.
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So, again, keep your Trello boards private, don't paste passwords willy-nilly, and maintain at least a basic level of operational security by not pasting passwords into any site that could make it public.
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Password advice hasn't changed any more than people's proclivity for horrible reused passwords, but here's a quick refresher: think complex pass phrases rather than simple pass words, and create unique passwords for every account.
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A Pew Research Center study found most Americans keep track of their passwords by memorizing or writing them down, with only 12 percent using a password manager, which can generate hard-to-crack passwords.
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Siminoff said Ring&aposs own network was not accessed and that the hacks were the result of customers using insecure passwords or passwords that had already been leaked in previous breaches not involving Ring.
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Safari's also able to automatically create and autofill passwords in Safari and iOS apps — because we're all too lazy to come up with strong passwords even though we know better than to use 123456.
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The Web version is still great as a full password audit for all your passwords stored by Google, and now the version built into Chrome will continually check your passwords as you enter them.
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Twitter on Thursday advised all 330 million of its users to change their passwords after a software bug caused the passwords to be stored in an unencrypted way for an unspecified period of time. Probably!
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Here's the best guide for creating passwords that are easy to remember, but also stand up to "brute force" attacks, meaning someone using software to rapidly guess millions of passwords on your precious encrypted files.
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The hackers injected code onto some user computers to capture plaintext passwords in real-time back in 2015, something that Slack only put together after its bug bounty program recently yielded some usernames and passwords.
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"Often these leaked passwords are from sites that have by definition weaker security, so either they don't have those restrictions in place or maybe they're an older site and these are older passwords," said Slain.
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It secures your logins, passwords, addresses, notes, and more in a customizable database with up to 448-bit Blowfish encryption and synchronizes with Mac OS X's keychain to deliver your passwords when you need them.
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In case you needed a reminder that you should never, ever, ever re-use passwords, a slew of Disney+ passwords were already available to buy on various forums mere hours after the streaming platform's debut.
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The study also found that while users often remember to change passwords for major sites, they're two and a half times more likely to reuse vulnerable passwords everywhere else, opening them to account hijacking threats.
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"We are advising our consumers to protect access to their banking accounts by regularly changing their passwords, and by using unique passwords they are not using elsewhere, including on any social media accounts," Sherman said.
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Although it's possible that some of their passwords were included in the auctioned database, it's more likely that their accounts were compromised because they reused passwords from other breached websites like LinkedIn, Myspace and Tumblr.
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Rotem and Locar are advising any businesses that use the Biostar 2 platform to change the passwords they use to access the Biostar 2 dashboard, and to also prompt their users to change their passwords.
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Safari on macOS does this too, by the way: It automatically offers to save usernames and passwords for you, and you can see the list that it's amassed by choosing Safari then Preferences and Passwords.
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Earlier this month, hackers accessed the passwords of thousands of Amazon Ring camera owners — however, unlike Wyze, Amazon has insisted that those passwords were stolen from a third party, and not Amazon&aposs own systems.
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The app can serve as a digital notebook where you jot down your preferred passwords; some apps even nudge you to create stronger passwords if the ones you use are deemed too easy to crack.
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Use tools from Chrome Google's browser has a Password Checkup feature that automatically checks all your saved passwords for security problems and alerts you if passwords have been exposed in a third-party data breach.
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You can also find your "Show passwords" toggle here (so you can see passwords as you type them), your notification controls for your lock screen, your autofill manager for forms, and several other privacy features.
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Strengthen your passwords, and consider the use of two-factor authentication.
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Your passwords are easily accessible with your fingerprint or your passcode.
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Sites will often advise you about the strength of your passwords.
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This requires an attacker to crack (or decrypt) these "hashed" passwords.
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Of those, around 117 million have both emails and encrypted passwords.
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Write down the names of and passwords for your wireless networks.
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Now's as good a time as ever to change your passwords.
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Use a password manager to create unique passwords for each site.
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Both companies said passwords were stored in plaintext and not scrambled.
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Thus, all the passwords are safe and the users data secured.
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What if I decline to hand over my passwords or PIN?
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Have your team ever tried to take your passwords off you?
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Finally, you don't have to pay extra for your own passwords.
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Here's how to make sure you're doing passwords right in 2018.
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No one likes passwords as a standalone tool to authenticate users.
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Your bank account is inherently interesting, your passwords are inherently interesting.
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As a result, users won't be required to reset their passwords.
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Yahoo Mail can't stop losing your passwords but it's still massive.
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Even the accounts with seemingly hack-proof passwords were at risk.
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The blog post originally said thousands of Instagram passwords were exposed.
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Microsoft is still recommending that affected users change their passwords regardless.
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Yes, your web browser can store and autofill passwords for you.
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Kaiser advised using multifactor authentication, since it's stronger than just passwords.
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The hackers also accessed a database of usernames and hashed passwords.
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Passwords do not appear to have been exposed by the breach.
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They would not need to provide passwords to the listed accounts.
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The big picture: Passwords do not appear to have been disclosed.
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The hack exposed email addresses and passwords for 1.4 million users.
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Why it matters: Passwords are annoying and they aren't very secure.
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Why do so many people need to remember so many passwords?
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But Darby would force Alina to tell him her new passwords.
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We all have more passwords than we can count — or remember.
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But these passwords were "salted," meaning they are harder to crack.
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We have already notified the affected users to change their passwords.
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Making a payment online typically requires 8.93 clicks and four passwords.
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Inevitably, we start sharing each other's technology and even our passwords.
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Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 PCs work without passwords.
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Other portions of the leaked data included Facebook and Twitter passwords.
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It can include updating antivirus software, adding firewalls and strengthening passwords.
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Is she holding all of Eli's social media passwords or something?
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In fact, they tell us to stop memorizing our passwords altogether.
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The stolen data includes email addresses, telephone numbers, and encrypted passwords.
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That's where LastPass also stores unique passwords they've generated for you.
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Users did not need to change passwords in the LastPass vault.
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This database contained passwords for just 22,000 users, according to UpGuard.
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Forget law enforcement trying to crack iPhone passwords of hardened criminals.
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" Chuvakin agreed: "Don't use standard passwords that come with the router.
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Customs has been reportedly demanding social media passwords at the border.
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Many targeted devices ship with default passwords that cannot be changed.
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We're just looking at the message contents for logins and passwords.
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Coming up with passwords that are easy to remember is difficult.
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It's supposed to be more secure than using passwords, certificates, etc.
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Using an overlay screen, the malware campaigns steal logins and passwords.
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And somewhere, there's a database with all those usernames and passwords.
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Border agents are seizing travellers' phones and asking for their passwords.
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In the introduction section, it recommends users regularly change their passwords.
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Unsurprisingly, the passwords revealed in the latest data haul are terrible.
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Passwords are still often the first line of defense against hackers.
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The breach has affected usernames and passwords, but no financial information.
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No passwords, social security numbers, or credit card data was exposed.
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Changing Yahoo passwords will be just the start for many users.
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Using different passwords from site to site will thwart this strategy.
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Always choose long, strong, unique passwords for each device and account.
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It discovered password logs where the passwords hadn't been hashed, however.
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The source would not say how the attackers obtained the passwords.
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Then, start changing passwords and PIN numbers on your accounts. 2.
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Change passwords regularly, ideally at least every three to six months.
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Call up a few friends, borrow their passwords, and get streaming.
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I don't know, I simply don't know most of my passwords.
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This is why you should be using truly randomly generated passwords.
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We just do recommend people are very careful about their passwords.
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Some of these could be used to steal passwords, Xiao claims.
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The stolen data includes user email addresses, passwords, and physical addresses.
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If your passwords are different, you have nothing to worry about.
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This is in addition to passwords and a physical computer key.
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"Change everything, passwords, codes, secure this place!" screams a panicked Brosnan.
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Despite weekly data breaches, humans still suck at picking decent passwords.
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A few weeks ago, we wrote about faces increasingly replacing passwords.
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Meanwhile, just 6 percent of Amazon Prime video customers steal passwords.
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" Miller asked Sevigny if her publicist had her "passwords and stuff.
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Are all your browser passwords and other data synced somewhere safe?
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The back pages were filled with handwritten login IDs and passwords.
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It leaves passwords wide open to cyberattacks or potential employee abuse.
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In response, Hostinger automatically reset customer passwords and upgraded its safeguards.
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The company recommends users change their passwords for their Slickwraps account.
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Over 1,500 Ring passwords have been found on the dark web
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The information reportedly included usernames, passwords, email addresses and join dates.
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Yahoo forced all of the affected users to change their passwords.
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So let's do a joint cybersecurity program and share our passwords.
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Transmit Security denied passwords were impacted in a follow-up email.
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"Not 40 systems with 40 passwords," said Avero's founder, Damian Mogavero.
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Scroll down until you come to the "Logins and Passwords" area.
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Fortunately, there are better ways to share accounts without sharing passwords.
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The company reminded customers not to recycle passwords and user names.
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I probably have to change all my passwords or something, huh?
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Another good thing about having your passwords in a central place?
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The days of safely reusing passwords on multiple sites are over.
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Also use a password manager so you don't ever reuse passwords.
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It found almost 70 percent of respondents shared passwords with colleagues.
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This data includes email usernames and passwords, according to the company.
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Thinkful said it is requiring all users to change their passwords.
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Kronos first surfaced in 2014 and steals banking usernames and passwords.
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Issuing new passwords took more than a week, according to ZDNet.
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Amazon knew users' wifi passwords had been leaked and were compromised.
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Trammell: Single-user mode, which used to not require any passwords.
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So that he could then add new users, change passwords, etc.
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Consumer bank accounts, passwords, health and financial records were not exposed.
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Tech Tip Q. Google Chrome keeps offering to save my passwords.
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If you already handed over sensitive information, change your passwords now.
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Strong, effective passwords should be relatively long and unique, experts say.
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An instant later, my usernames and passwords are automatically filled in.
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Hackers also managed to rip 65 million hashed passwords from Tumblr.
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Since then, I've seen proposals to eliminate passwords come and go.
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The data includes user email addresses, names, passwords, and physical addresses.
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Most people use passcodes, passwords, or patterns to "lock" their phones.
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People often craft easily crackable passwords simply as a matter of convenience and then reuse those crap passwords across multiple accounts, thus giving attackers an easy way into all the locked corners of their digital lives.
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Because even if stolen data was properly encrypted — so it's highly unlikely any passwords will ever be compromised — they still have to tell their users to change their passwords, just to be on the safe side.
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Passwords have been around a long time (think about soldiers entering armed camps at night and giving the secret password), but today, the average consumer uses 25 or more sites and apps that rely on passwords.
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Like the earlier iteration, the new feature will tap into the passwords saved in iCloud keychain — which syncs the passwords you've saved in Safari across all your Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac.
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years Today's big Facebook whoopsie is the revelation that the company stored millions of passwords in plain text in various databases throughout the company.
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Facebook admits it stored 'hundreds of millions' of account passwords in plaintext Prompted by a report by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, Facebook confirmed that it stored "hundreds of millions" of account passwords in plaintext for years.
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"Scammers have much more efficient ways of breaching your credit card and getting your data," such as guessing weak passwords, or "phishing" calls pretending to be from the user's bank and asking them for their passwords.
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Facebook confirmed on Thursday that it had kept "hundreds of millions" of user passwords in a "readable format"—meaning engineers and other employees with access to the company's internal systems could see the actual plaintext passwords.
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Remembering such an encyclopedia of passwords is functionally impossible, which is why Mr. Templeton suggests using a password manager, which not only creates unique passwords automatically but also keeps track of them across all your devices.
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Last year, the app was found to be sending users' passwords to the developers, but the company issued an update that reportedly rectified the issue and claims it doesn't store emails or passwords on its servers.
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Originally, 6.5 million passwords were leaked online, but this number jumped significantly when a hacker told Motherboard he had attempted to sell the emails and passwords of hundreds of millions of LinkedIn users on the dark web.
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While all the passwords were hashed—meaning that they'd been turned into garbled text by an algorithm as a security measure—a LeakedSource blog post states that the site was able to crack just over 30,20153 passwords.
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The idea behind this hack: to get those affiliated with the think tank to submit passwords on a lookalike site, then to target politicians with emails or messages from hackers posing as those who shared their passwords.
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The source said Facebook is still trying to determine how many passwords were exposed and for how long, but so far the inquiry has uncovered archives with plain text user passwords in them dating back to 2012.
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Users can activate the Myki Chrome extension to log into various services through their phone, but the passwords are never kept on remote servers — and even administrators don't know what they are once new passwords are issued.
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Speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Wednesday, Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos talked about how the social network buys stolen passwords so that it can run its own encrypted password database against stolen passwords.
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"These passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them," the company said https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/keeping-passwords-secure.
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Cloudflare hasn't found any leaked passwords or uncovered any evidence that the bug was discovered by anyone other than Ormandy — but it never hurts to refresh your passwords, particularly since they may be exposed in a cache.
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The investing app Robinhood is urging some customers to change their passwords after it discovered that some users' credentials, including passwords, were stored in a "readable format" within the company's internal systems because of a technology glitch.
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In a blog post titled "Keeping Passwords Secure," the social media giant said it had found no reason to believe the trove of passwords had been abused by its workers or accessed by anyone outside the company.
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VUSec, for instance, created a proof of concept, shown above, that can pull hashed passwords—strings of encrypted passwords that can often be cracked by hackers—out of a target chip's component called a line-fill buffer.
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Facebook has to take steps to protect the security of user passwords.
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Some passwords are sold in dark corners of the internet, Foster said.
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All 15 confirmed that the passwords listed for their accounts were correct.
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Apple recommends all customers select strong passwords and use two-factor authentication.
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Everything from passwords to stored files could be compromised as a result.
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These attackers know more about how people create passwords than anyone else.
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In addition, use long and strong passwords that don't repeat across accounts.
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We have reason to believe that subscriber passwords may have been compromised.
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And of the 22 million passwords, half were not in the database.
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About 20,000 employees had access to the passwords, according to his sources.
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In less than desirable circumstances, passwords are reset following a data breach.
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Remember strong, unique passwords Your password is the first line of defense.
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Sync uploads your browser history, bookmarks, passwords, and other data to Google.
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"We want to get on their social media with passwords," Kelly testified.
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This is a hard one because passwords are used so broadly today.
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Your passwords are never shared with Okta or Have I Been Pwned.
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The intrigue: There are other options than passwords for consumer-friendly security.
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It isn't her primary account and we have since changed the passwords.
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You also can save in your browser passwords from a private tab.
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There are no options to set expiry dates or passwords, for example.
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Products should not be able to operate with factory usernames and passwords.
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None of the passwords were visible to anyone outside Facebook, he said.
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Brave, for some reason, only imported about a fourth of my passwords.
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Or you can simply create new logins and passwords for each app.
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Although the passwords were encrypted, they are not secure, the company notes.
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But directly asking for passwords would seem to be a major step.
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Facebook doesn't seem to be actively recommending that people change their passwords.
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Your bank account is inherently interesting or your passwords are inherently interesting.
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That memory content could contain key strokes, passwords, and other valuable information.
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Facebook admits it stored 'hundreds of millions' of account passwords in plaintext
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Hunt told Motherboard that the data contained 65,469,298 unique emails and passwords.
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Would you say it's responsible emotionally to share your passwords with people?
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Recommendation number one is: don't share passwords with someone you don't trust.
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They also claimed to have usernames, passwords, payment data and backend code.
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Password managers take the hassle out of creating and remembering strong passwords.
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But what they are wanting to do is still get my passwords.
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It also doesn't store your login, passwords, or data itself, it notes.
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However, the attacker did not gain access to unprotected passwords, says Yahoo.
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The service successfully returned just over half of the users' alleged passwords.
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The compromised info included stuff like passwords, phone numbers and email addresses.
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Recode says Yahoo may have to force users to reset their passwords.
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The company also said that usernames and scrambled passwords were also taken.
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People make a lot of spelling errors, and they forget their passwords.
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The top no-brainer passwords overall are impersonal number combinations, like 12345.
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Neuroscientists aren't interested in stealing your passwords right out of your head.
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For what it's worth, streaming platforms already know you're sharing your passwords.
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Use different passwords for every site, and remember to change them periodically.
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The data affected includes usernames, emails and encrypted passwords, the company said.
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So we can only keep so many different passwords in our heads.
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In fact, these password managers can generate very complicated passwords for you.
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They only sought customer names, email addresses and scrambled passwords, Dell said.
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You may feel squeamish about inputting passwords to a third-party service.
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It's generally good practice to not leave these old passwords sitting around.
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You could even use a physical, offline password manager for your passwords.
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Avoiding these popular passwords won't automatically give you a strong password though.
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No passwords to remember, no extra accounts to manage and worry about.
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Krebs reports that the passwords stretched back to those created in 2012.
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"We don't use MD5 for our passwords to store them," he said.
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What's worse, the company didn't "salt" the passwords in the hashing process.
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Passwords continue to be one of the weaker points in online security.
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It included email addresses, user names, plain text passwords, and IP addresses.
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Creating strong passwords, and rotating them often, is crucial to protecting data.
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To do this, you'll probably have to change a lot of passwords.
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Any passwords that you use should be strong, hard to guess ones.
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They won't necessarily see your passwords if you don't use them, correct?
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LastPass stores all passwords in the cloud, making them accessible from anywhere.
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We don't know what's out there, private messages, passwords, credit card details.
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The app would be unable to change passwords or spend money, however.
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You should also have different passwords for all the services you use.
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Memorizing individual passwords for all of your online accounts can be difficult.
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After a while, remembering strong passwords becomes a chore, or even impossible.
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A hacker hijacks a verified Twitter account using stolen or leaked passwords.
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Just make sure you have any important Wi-Fi passwords written down.
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But even those aren't system-level, requiring no additional usernames and passwords.
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Intruders can crack weak, easily guessed passwords by hand or with software.
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In the Settings app, swipe down and click on Passwords & Accounts.2.
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These include increased oversight of third-party apps and encrypting user passwords.
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If you're reading this, it's time to change all of your passwords.
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Scroll down and tap "Passwords & Accounts" in the fifth section of options.
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Use passwords with 12 characters or more with mixed types of characters.
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But user passwords were not being proactively reset, according to this notice.
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The lesson: Huge datadumps of email addresses and passwords continue to surface.
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Scarily enough, Norton research has found that 36% of millennials share passwords.
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Girls and older teens were also more likely to share their passwords.
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You need to keep track of dozens of identification numbers and passwords.
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Thrillist, meanwhile, says you can sometimes find WiFi passwords on Foursquare threads.
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Chrome also keeps a secure list of all the passwords it saves.
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In fact, over 80% of all breaches happen because of compromised passwords.
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Last year, around 32 million usernames and passwords for Twitter accounts surfaced.
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The company said it would not require people to reset their passwords.
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The sites redirected to web pages to steal passwords and other data.
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Share your (unique, not reused!) passwords widely and with a clean conscience.
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In addition to passwords, you should make other personal information readily accessible.
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One strong, unique password lets you into your entire bank of passwords.
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That breach compromised additional data, including security questions used to reset passwords.
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Keeping passwords hashed, or encrypted, is widely regarded as fundamental to cybersecurity.
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We think our passwords keep us safe, but that's just a fantasy.
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And if Chrome bugs you about your bad passwords, don't ignore it!
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Be sure this includes passwords so your online accounts can be accessed.
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Use different passwords It's simple: Use a different password for each account.
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The breach compromised the emails and passwords of 21625 million LinkedIn users.
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One is tricking people into giving up passwords, including through phishing emails.
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The breach compromised the emails and passwords of 117 million LinkedIn users.
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The database of passwords was then put online for all to see.
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No longer are we remembering (or, more likely, forgetting) dozens of passwords.
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The best way to protect your passwords is to not know them.
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"But no full credit card numbers or passwords were disclosed," Bethesda said.
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Still, Harris has a message to other NFL stars -- CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS.
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The Pineapple just makes grabbing unencrypted passwords sent over Wi-Fi easier.
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As for why a significant percentage of users still used hijacked passwords?
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The concept of passwords will probably disappear in the future, but, until then, using software to manage passwords across your various Internet accounts is far safer than doing it yourself or using the same combination across multiple accounts.
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Those being asked for their e-mail passwords were users who listed an e-mail address that doesn't use the secure OAuth protocol, which allows users to verify their identity to a third party without sharing their passwords.
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The company claimed that the passwords that were stolen "cannot be easily converted back to plain text," but Motherboard and security experts didn't have issues converting into original passwords a sample of the data provided by the hacker.
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On Tuesday, the company is announcing "Password Checkup," which runs in Chrome all the time as you go about your daily web browsing, and checks passwords you enter on all sites against a database of known compromised passwords.
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The desktop app will tell you which passwords are weak (broken down by "terrible" or just plain "weak"), which are duplicates (I had dozens, I'm ashamed to say), and which passwords have remained unchanged for months or years.
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TechCrunch ran several passwords through Ring's sign-up page and found we could enter any easy to guess password, like "12345678" and "password" — which have consistently ranked as some of the most common passwords for several years running.
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This is one you shouldn't ignore: The new feature will suggest stronger passwords for your accounts, and it will even run a checkup on your current passwords so you can be better protected in the next big breach.
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The company at the time denied a data breach and claimed attackers were running credential stuffing attacks, in which hackers take lists of stolen usernames and passwords and try them on other sites that use the same passwords.
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You'll be able to quickly check if your password was compromised in a third-party breach, find any passwords you're reusing in multiple places, or replace weak, easy-to-guess passwords you might have in place for some accounts.
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Any users who created their account before this date, who have not changed their passwords since, and who do not use single-sign-on can expect to have their passwords reset by the company if it hasn't happened already.
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The bad news is that even though people have a decent sense of what are the best strategies to generate good passwords, they still have fatal misconceptions and don't understand how hackers can guess or find out their passwords.
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When you disconnect from the desktop version of Sync, which lets you sync bookmarks, tabs, and passwords across devices, Firefox will now ask if you want to wipe your Firefox profile, which contains passwords, history, cookies, and site data.
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People buy those caches and then use the usernames and passwords not only to infiltrate the accounts for the stolen service (provided the service hasn't reset all passwords) but also other services where users may reuse the same credentials.
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" Epic Games confirmed the now-patched vulnerability in a statement to the Washington Post, noting that it "[encourages] players to protect their accounts by not re-using passwords and using strong passwords, and not sharing account information with others.
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A cybersecurity researcher found that Elsevier, which publishes scientific and medical journals, had stored people's usernames and passwords in plain text on an unprotected server on its website, meaning anyone who found the page could instantly access the passwords.
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"As a precaution, we highly and openly encourage all Ring users to enable two-factor authentication on their Ring account, add Shared Users (instead of sharing login credentials), use strong passwords, and regularly change their passwords," the statement said.
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Also: don't pick one of these common passwords, like "12345, "football," or "password.
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Tech Fix IT became official again this week: We are awful at passwords.
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After a few days I memorized those passwords and threw away the paper.
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Still, it's as good an excuse as any to fix your bad passwords.
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Simple passwords stored using this function are likely to be cracked with ease.
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Juggling passwords used to pretty inconvenient, but today there are reputable password managers.
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Military police even tried to convince activists to give up their Facebook passwords.
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There's no reason anyone would use passwords except to hide their terrorism, obviously.
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But if you're still not using hard-to-crack passwords—for example, 0tu!
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But at least you don't have to worry about changing all your passwords.
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In many previous cases, scammers have created phishing pages to steal victims' passwords.
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When customers next login to Ticketmaster, they'll be asked to reset their passwords.
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In 2012, hackers stole over 117 million email addresses and passwords from LinkedIn.
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We also prevent the use of passwords that appear on known compromised lists.
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Bad passwords America's weapons systems also remain easy to hack with basic tools.
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You'll need to have access to your usernames, passwords and loyalty card numbers.
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One method they've adopted is to move away from passwords for user authentication.
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A Virtual Private Network ensures that your passwords and confidential data stay safe.
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On Monday, the company finally finished resetting the passwords of all users affected.
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Apple clearly knows that passwords are flawed and is thinking about replacing them.
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They claim she was made to give up her passwords to those devices.
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No matter how many passwords you set, your iPhone is never totally safe.
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Finally don't forget your browser, which may have passwords and bookmarks you need.
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She has all their passwords so she can check them when she wants.
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The passwords were stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes, as LinkedIn's were, too.
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Typing in passwords can be seen, copied and later used by nearby eavesdroppers.
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New York cable provider RCN recently admitted to storing customer passwords in plaintext.
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We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.
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The company has advised users to change their passwords as a precautionary measure.
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Careem said there's no evidence the hackers accessed passwords or credit card information.
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Single sign-on services are clearly convenient; fewer passwords is a great thing.
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Chrome for iOS will take all your passwords and browsing history with you.
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Get your kids to change their passwords and turn on two-factor authentication.
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Facebook told CNN Business that it only recently learned about the Instagram passwords.
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Personally identifiable information, like social security numbers, passwords or credit cards, weren't stolen.
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Facebook employees had access to the passwords of hundreds of millions of users.
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Password managers, which use software to encrypt passwords, are another option, he added.
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Vary your passwords across your accounts and never repeat those you've already used.
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If you find passwords annoying, you might not like two-factor authentication much.
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Then there's the way in which those passwords are saved in Collection #1.
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Mirai was a relatively rudimentary, albeit powerful botnet that relied on default passwords.
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Of all the great new features, one is utterly life-changing: AutoFill Passwords.
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That last bit — hashed passwords — may be one small consolation from the breach.
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We currently think of passwords as something we keep secure in our heads.
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Intuitively, you might think it's unwise to store your passwords on your computer.
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From leaked passwords to identity theft, cybersecurity issues are constantly in the news.
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"Customers should be forced to change passwords and change them often," he adds.
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The files contained usernames and passwords that could be used on other sites.
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The dataset contains at least 100 million emails and passwords of LinkedIn users.
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Third, these applications must not use passwords, which are themselves major security vulnerabilities.
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Use strong passwords — even pass-phrases — to protect personal accounts and sensitive files.
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BVM is either phishing passwords out of the mods, or bruteforcing their accounts.
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Popular music streaming service Spotify is actively resetting a number of users' passwords.
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Dashlane can help generate unlimited and unique passwords every time you log in.
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"To be clear, these passwords remained in our secure encrypted infrastructure," said Frey.
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Hackers stole usernames, email addresses, passwords and account tokens for third-party services.
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These were passwords that George had learned during his time in the LRA.
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Originally, ProtonMail required two passwords, but now it only requires one by default.
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If it works, they'll have a bunch of FBI passwords for their trouble.
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Ormandy said that it would be wise for consumers to reset their passwords.
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The logs even included failed login attempts, storing usernames and passwords in plaintext.
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Facebook is not forcing affected users to change their passwords at this time.
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So FinecoBank has at least the right intentions, suggesting people choose unique passwords.
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These are programs that help you create unique passwords and store them securely.
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These apps generate complex random passwords and can automatically log you into websites.
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The report also showed potentially shoddy encryption work for passwords and user tokens.
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Scroll down and tap on "Passwords & Accounts" from the fifth list of tabs.
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"I did not think that sharing passwords would be that bad," he said.
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It later added that millions of Instagram passwords had been stored this way.
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Because both passwords were 14 characters or less, they were easy to crack.
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Given the issue with passwords, it's best to add additional layers of security.
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" LinkedIn said Wednesday that it has been salting its passwords "for several years.
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Don't use "password" as your password and use different passwords for different accounts.
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That streaming platform passwords are floating around the internet is hardly a surprise.
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MySpace said Tuesday that it now uses double-salted hashes to store passwords.
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Another is guessing passwords and usernames using a list of commonly used ones.
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Google's password manager already offers a service that tracks passwords across different accounts.
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"They then changed the passwords on [the victim's] online accounts," the indictment reads.
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Apple does the same thing, you can save passwords on the Apple systems.
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The agents confiscated their phones and demanded the passwords to unlock them. Mrs.
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But after forgetting her passwords, she could not use most of its features.
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The data contains first and last names, email address, phone numbers and passwords.
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The passwords in the database have been hashed by Hunt with SHA-1.
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To check their passwords users need to sign into their account on 1Password.
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Greatwood says that some companies have hundreds of passwords for various industrial tools.
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The passwords were mostly held by users in North America and Western Europe.
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The complete list of the 25 most common passwords this year follows below:
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Others used keyloggers to steal usernames and passwords to break into employees' accounts.
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Wishbone says no passwords or financial information was part of the breach, however.
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If the passwords were fully encrypted or hashed, it wouldn't be that easy.
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Using strong, unique passwords is vital to keeping hackers and cybercriminals at bay.
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I know people in my country have been bad, on internet security. Passwords.
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These passwords are required for releasing new builds of the Voatz Android app.
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This included messages, both encrypted and otherwise, real-time GPS locations, and passwords.
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The criminals then used the passwords to steal money from the victims' accounts.
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Third, create strong Wi-Fi passwords and engage two-factor authentication where possible.
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The "implant" could also access the user's on-device bank of saved passwords.
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California just enacted an Internet of Things security law that prohibits default passwords.
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Users who signed up to Social Captain should change their Instagram passwords immediately.
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Once upon a time, you only had to remember one or two passwords.
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I use a password manager, so my passwords are strong and well protected.
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Once you get there, your passwords and personal information are immediately at risk.
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The problem is, most of what you know about passwords is probably wrong.
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And because many are cross-platform, you can bring your passwords with you.
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The company was storing the passwords of linked Instagram accounts in plain text.
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There, click "Saved Logins…" to launch a new menu with all your passwords.
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Occasionally they ask for online browsing histories and passwords to social-media accounts.
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The whatever world of passwords, streaming, and clouds— Oh, streams and clouds by.
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Hackers already operate sophisticated networks for sharing stolen passwords on the dark web.
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They likely prepared themselves by compiling lists of previously compromised usernames and passwords.
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People had tried changing passwords, disconnecting and resetting accounts, enabling two-factor authorization.
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Song claims no passwords, financial information, or "government-regulated" personal information was exposed.
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A 28503 attack breached 22019 billion Yahoo user accounts, affecting usernames and passwords.
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Another app is said to have stored unprotected Facebook passwords for 22,000 users.
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Police seized his phone and computer, and demanded the passwords for the devices.
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Some users&apos login information, including usernames, passwords, and PINs, was also exposed.
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The list of this year's 21990 "worst" passwords says a lot about us.
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Years were popular passwords too — 1990 and 1991 were ranked 64th and 65th.
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This doesn't simply mean giving journalists passwords for journals or online university libraries.
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In other words, the rules that govern the creation of strong passwords aren't rules that we human beings can easily stick to—at least not without compromising our security in another way, or forgetting our passwords on a daily basis.
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The average worker has well over 100 passwords to maintain, and the majority of data breaches that plague companies are the result of some kind of compromise to user passwords, according to several sources, including Microsoft and password security company LastPass.
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Even though good security practice requires sites to store passwords only in a "hashed" form (cryptographically transformed so they can be recognized when a user logs in, but not read directly), attackers often obtain a database dump containing the hashed passwords.
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To audit yourself on this aspect of your digital security, open Safari and then pick Preferences from the Safari menu—go to the Passwords tab and you'll see yellow exclamation marks next to all the saved entries that have duplicate passwords.
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"Having the hashes means that attackers can launch offline brute-force guessing attacks against these passwords and potentially crack many of them as users are often notoriously bad in choosing good passwords," Kirda said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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This includes forcing the device to give up information about itself and then, ultimately, release keys and passwords "in an attack that very much resembles heartbleed," the exploit that forced many web servers to display passwords and other keys remotely.
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Days after a hacker put up for sale a database of LinkedIn usernames and passwords that were stolen in a data breach back in 2012, the company says it has now finally finished resetting the passwords of all the victims.
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With the court fight between Apple and the FBI as a news peg, CNBC tried to teach people that accounts secured by simple passwords can easily be guessed or brute-forced with a custom-coded tool that analyzed reader's passwords.
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The same hacker who was selling the data of more than 298 million LinkedIn users last week now claims to have 299 million emails and passwords of MySpace users, which would be one of the largest leaks of passwords ever.
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"Back in 2012, we reset the passwords of every member we believed to be compromised based on what was released, and we encouraged all of our members to reset their passwords," Hani Durzy, a LinkedIn spokesman, said in an email.
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Reusing passwords is among the worst things you could possibly do for your—and everybody's—personal security, but with each of us having dozens or hundreds of accounts, it's quite difficult to remember an equal number of unique, strong passwords.
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Yael: (For people who don't know, hashing is turning passwords into strings of digits, and salting is adding a series of random bytes to the end of the passwords before they are hashed.) Bill: Oh no, it's stored in md5, unsalted!
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Security experts have repeatedly offered sound advice after such breaches: Never reuse passwords and start using a password manager, which generates unique passwords for each login and stores them in one encrypted file protected by a single, strong "master" password.
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Mr. Krebs said an audit by Facebook had found that hundreds of millions of user passwords dating to 2012 were stored in a format known as plain text, which makes the passwords readable to more than 20,000 of the company's employees.
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And I try to exercise good password hygiene, by which I mean I change my passwords regularly, often to long phrases I can remember, and use different, stronger passwords for more sensitive data, like my email, banking and medical records.
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Passwords will also come under scrutiny as 45,000 cybersecurity workers convene in San Francisco next week for the RSA Conference, where "The Human Element" is the theme and dozens of talks and sessions will discuss identity-authentication methods besides remembered passwords.
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Just last year, Chinese hackers stole hundreds of thousands of passwords from jailbroken phones.
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Other security measures include the use of passwords, facial-recognition technology and fingerprint sensors.
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Thomas emphasized using different passwords across sites, which many people know but simply disregard.
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Again, your passwords and bookmarks aren't affected, and nor are your open tabs actually.
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You can also manually search to see which of your passwords have been exposed.
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I don't even have to worry about data; no passwords are stored on it.
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If you struggle to remember passwords, get an app to do it for you.
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"Users use on average only 6 passwords throughout their entire online identity," said Iluz.
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Sensitive data like passwords and personal information are generally kept encrypted at all times.
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"Forged cookies" are digital keys that allow access to information without re-entering passwords.
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"Eight out of the top ten passwords end with a digit," the study says.
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Both Duruk and SecGuru said the passwords quoted were ones they had actually used.
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Affected users were asked to reset passwords to once again access to their accounts.
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Instead, we use modern cryptographic methods to ensure passwords are stored securely in production.
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They each allow you to transfer browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, and even stored cookies.
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RSA encryption is used almost everywhere, from passwords to banking to your social media.
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Names and email addresses were exposed, but not passwords or any credit card info.
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They assigned passwords to all macs in my company to fix that hole today.
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The hackers then uploaded a bevy of tools to harvest passwords from those machines.
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The stolen information includes people's names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, passwords. 7.
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Facebook says it'll be contacting all the people whose Instagram passwords were improperly stored.
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You can even securely share passwords with your friends or family members without issue.
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Sixty-three percent of data breaches involved weak, default or stolen passwords, Verizon reported.
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It has the financial accounts, our bill-paying accounts, my Yahoo and Google passwords.
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If it is, the app notifies you and helps you change any compromised passwords.
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That means training employees on how not to share passwords or open suspicious emails.
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Even worse, Burr suggested people should change passwords regularly, at least every 90 days.
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Previously, passwords weren't saved as part of iCloud backups for security and privacy reasons.
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Amazon and Google assistants do not ask users to reveal passwords when working correctly.
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You can reset Microsoft Edge to clear your passwords, web search history, and more.
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Set up those strong passwords for all of your accounts as soon as possible.
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For one thing, Twitter said that no one has inappropriately accessed the user passwords.
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It may then use these passwords in order to move through the target network.
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The best way to protect against the password spray is to just eliminate passwords.
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The data contains 790,724 unique email addresses, and also includes usernames and plaintext passwords.
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You can read them now, but we'd really recommend changing your passwords first. authy.compatreon.commedium.com4chan.orgyelp.comzendesk.comuber.comthepiratebay.orgpastebin.comdiscordapp.comchange.orgfeedly.comhardsextube.comnationalreview.competapixel.compuu.shputlocker.wstineye.
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The company, however, didn't say exactly what algorithm it used to hash the passwords.
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Many victims used passwords like "123456" or "iloveyou"; classic examples of poor cyber-hygiene.
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Twitter claims to have found the bug on its own and removed the passwords.
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For now, Facebook says there is no need for users to change their passwords.
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They did advise people who have accounts on their website to reset their passwords.
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But passwords alone are far from the ideal way of keeping our accounts safe.
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Myspace is notifying users and has already invalidated the passwords of known affected accounts.
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Whatever's destined to substitute passwords will have to be simple, robust, affordable and flexible.
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In addition to using strong passwords, you should employ two-factor identification whenever possible.
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Conventional wisdom about choosing longer, more complicated passwords is getting less effective over time.
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As a precautionary measure, we're asking all our users to change their passwords immediately.
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The lesson here is simple: Today is a good day to change your passwords.
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In some cases the exposure of the passwords goes back as far as 2012.
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The database has over 500 million passwords that have been compiled from previous breaches.
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The most egregious are designed to steal the passwords that unlock users' bank accounts.
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And remember, our brains are actually good at remembering long, impossible to guess passwords.
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If you use Time Warner Cable's services, you should update your passwords right now.
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On that note, you really should use different passwords for every account you use.
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When it comes to choosing passwords, a lot of us are very, very dumb.
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Its authentication technology secures traditional passwords and also biometrics like fingerprints, faces and voices.
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A Bitcoin ransom with using what I think is passwords from a big leak.
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Users who have not updated passwords since 2014 should do so immediately, he said.
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That, Zomato said, included email addresses and hashed passwords, but not credit card information.
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If your score isn't high enough, apps could revert back to asking for passwords.
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LeakedSource said it was able to view passwords for 99 percent of the credentials.
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Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text.
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That threat goes away if you use different passwords across all of your accounts.
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It also generates strong, unique passwords and keeps everything secure with military-grade encryption.
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The database includes network names (SSID), precise geolocation, and *plaintext* passwords, among other data.
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Any sizable breach of sensitive information like usernames and passwords represents a privacy catastrophe.
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In fact, the majority (63 percent) of all confirmed data breaches involved leaked passwords.
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Naik concurs, stressing that vendors should make complex passwords a requirement for their products.
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The passwords were stored using a long-deprecated scrambling algorithm, making them easily cracked.
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Zappos says it acted swiftly so that passwords could be reset, preventing serious harm.
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What if your passwords are all stolen because you got yourself some toilet paper?
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Newhouse also asserted that Dropbox is not viewing or storing Mac users' admin passwords.
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Many of the passwords were quickly unscrambled using readily available tools when we tried.
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Peace is asking for 6 Bitcoin (roughly $2,800) for the stolen passwords and emails.
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The disgusting re-tweet has been removed and we have changed all account passwords.
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This includes everything from Social Security numbers to email passwords and bank account information.
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This will protect your devices from basic attacks like Mirai, which target default passwords.
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Assuming your iris signature is unique and remains protected, this is better than passwords.
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Never reuse passwords across multiple sites; it increases your exposure by orders of magnitude.
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This could potentially allow hackers to install programs, change passwords, and compromise users' data.
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Once you've found your passwords, you need to get them into your password manager.
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Indeed, some of the passwords have seemingly been cracked and included in the spreadsheet.
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It's a tiny update that gives users a more secure way to share passwords.
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The hacker also published DCCC shared passwords to several online databases and news networks.
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Companies may store passwords or facial recognition data with hashes to improve their security.
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Around Monday morning, a user called Fender announced that site passwords had been reset.
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Sharing passwords between sites and services is the worst and do not do that.
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Passwords are hackable through brute-force bots, to say nothing of accidentally revealing them.
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It secures the camera, the keychain which stores your passwords and the Touch Bar.
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The issue has been resolved, but the company recommends that users change their passwords.
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A word of caution Twitter says all 336 million users should change their passwords.
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More than 20,000 Facebook employees would have had access to these plain text passwords.
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But if it's Gmail you're not just going to run through a thousand passwords.
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And people like Weinstein are finding creative ways to protect their passwords and devices.
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It's not like Trump has been running around yelling MAKE ALL YOUR PASSWORDS 1234!
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Rotem and Locar said they also found private keys and in some cases passwords.
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You can see the code containing the hardcoded passwords in this file called scanner.c.
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They stole passwords, tracked keystrokes, took screenshots and watched banking information, the indictment said.
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Since 2011, the White House has been trying to push people away from passwords.
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It also said it would get rid of temporary passwords all together by September.
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Employees no longer need alphanumeric passwords that have to be changed every few months.
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A new Password Checkup feature will keep tabs on whether your passwords are secure
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Last summer, their accounts were hijacked and the passwords were changed, locking them out.
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And with simply reusing passwords, you are putting eggs into very, very fragile baskets.
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Then we found out about Tumblr, which lost the passwords of 65 million people.
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That forced some companies—which had not been breached—to proactively reset users' passwords.
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The investigation indicates that affected information may include usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
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According to Leaked Source, nearly 50,000 of the passwords in the datadump were "badoo".
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A Belgian named Fabian starts trading in passwords to porn sites in the 1990s.
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Hackers managed to steal a database of Darkode's users, including usernames and hashed passwords.
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The Russian intelligence officers used spearphishing to steal victims' passwords or access their computers.
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Recently, both GitHub and Twitter admitted having exposed passwords in plaintext within their systems.
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Cybersecurity is about securing our way of life, not our passwords or our webcams.
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At one point, passwords seemed like the most obvious way to verify account ownership.
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Fortunately, there are plenty of apps that can help you remember all those passwords.
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Instead, this is probably the result of people reusing passwords that were already compromised.
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Then they used "spearphishing" emails, trying to trick utility operators into changing their passwords.
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According to research, the average person has roughly 19 passwords for various online accounts.
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CHINEX is specifically for pulling data and passwords from phones manufactured with Chinese chipsets.
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Also: LastPass helps me securely manage the dozens of websites I have passwords for.
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What's more likely is that people are reusing credentials and passwords across different accounts.
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This can even include where to find passwords for social media and email accounts.
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If you've been phished, change your passwords to something you have never used before.
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Then there are the passwords that have been exposed publicly, appearing in data breaches.
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Like Chrome, Safari suggests strong passwords when you're signing up for a new account.
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You&aposll be presented with the same menu that you chose your passwords in.
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Teenagers share their passwords for social media and other accounts with boyfriends and girlfriends.
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Most of the affected passwords belong to people using the platform's Facebook Lite version.
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Facebook did not say how long it had been storing passwords in this way.
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Jamie Siminoff said that customers&apos insecure passwords were to blame for the hacks.
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This is why it is so important to use unique passwords for every site.
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Once enabled, users or customers need more than just passwords to access their accounts.
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If this is the case, you'll want to delete your saved passwords from Firefox.
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They'll forget about software updates, share their passwords, and click links they should not.
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Seriously, though, don't write your passwords down—use one of these password managers instead.
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Chrome also has a free service that suggests strong passwords for new sign-ins.
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We should employ long, complex and unique passwords on every website that we visit.
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You don't need to memorize 20-character passwords or keep a little black book.
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One tactic involves trying to obtain the emails and passwords of users of Coinlink.
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Usually, data breaches deal with identifying information such as emails, passwords, and phone numbers.
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The cyber criminals also gained access to "salted and hashed" customer passwords, DoorDash says.
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A pop-up will appear asking if they want to change their saved passwords.
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A yellow exclamation mark indicates a potential problem with one of your listed passwords.
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Once that&aposs set up, you can start saving passwords to your Google account.
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This includes everything from detecting malware threats to protecting passwords to backing up data.
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Hashed passwords are encrypted, so they must be cracked before they can be used.
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Users should protect their accounts with strong, unique passwords and enable two-factor authentication.
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Hackers were able to access these by using previously compromised passwords from other services.
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Yahoo previously said names, email addresses and passwords were compromised but not financial information.
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Yet, he adds, it's not his job to be successful at recovering forgotten passwords.
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However, judge Emma Arbuthnot found that Rabbani was lawfully required to provide the passwords.
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More sensitive information like passwords, financial information, or social security numbers were not affected.
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As of Tuesday morning, the hacker said he wasn't able to crack the passwords.
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It's not just about data breaches or having access to their pictures or passwords.
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The shift from single passwords to multifactor authentication couldn't be timelier or more strategic.
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Since people so often reuse passwords, or use easily guessable variations on a theme, the data in a trove of usernames and passwords can help bad actors access all sorts of accounts, whether it's from last week or half a decade ago.
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Use your browser toolsScreenshot: GizmodoModern-day browsers can not only save your passwords for you—they can recommend new, secure passwords whenever you need to create a new one, and can even warn you when you're using the same password across multiple accounts.
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The NCSC said more than 30 million victims use those two passwords alone, according to its latest breach analysis based off data pulled from Pwned Passwords, a website run by security researcher Troy Hunt, who also runs breach notification Have I Been Pwned.
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Windows-based Olympic Destroyer carries out a number of different tasks, according to Talos: it drops several files onto the target which then steal passwords stored in a browser, either Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome, as well as the computer's system passwords.
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But the company actually did take some action last month, too, proactively resetting passwords that appeared to be breached, preventing compromised passwords from being reused, and encouraging customers to adopt 2FA, too, according to a statement the company sent out December 19th.
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" When it announced the precautionary password reset last week, it said the passwords were also accessed during that breach: "We learned about an old set of Dropbox user credentials (email addresses plus hashed and salted passwords) that we believe was obtained in 2012.
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It also requested the new software circumvent a feature that causes delays of up to one hour when nine wrong passwords are entered - making it possible to break into the phone using the "brute force" method of trying millions of different passwords.
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GitHub declined to answer additional questions about the attack, pointing instead to its blog post which confirms that usernames and passwords have been accessed for all accounts affected by the passwords reuse attack (although we do not know how many accounts that is).
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Company suggested changing passwords immediately "The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers," Yahoo said in the statement.
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The file contained user email addresses and hashed passwords; hashing is a one-way encryption function that hides the actual password for the purpose of security, meaning that hackers would not be able to view the actual passwords corresponding to user accounts.
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He said that the data contained 197,000 unique email addresses, and Harkin confirmed that the passwords were hashed twice with the MD5 algorithm and a salt (a salt is a random string added to passwords to make the hash harder to crack).
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All-in-one digital wallet managers that use cross-platform storage verification to house passwords, PINs, software licenses, credit cards and more — think 1Password and LogMeOnce — are increasingly popular with consumers, as they alleviate the need to enter different passwords across multiple accounts.
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Google figures that since it has a big (encrypted) database of all your passwords, it might as well compare them against a 4-billion-strong public list of compromised usernames and passwords that have been exposed in innumerable security breaches over the years.
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So they were able to get that taken down, and change the passwords very quickly.
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Enter LastPass, which can safely store passwords, shopping profiles, sensitive personal data, and more besides.
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"The safest approach to creating good passwords is not to create them yourself," adds Marshall.
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Double the security budgets, break up sensitive into different databases, stop issuing unrandomized backup passwords.
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In 2013, Adobe suffered a major hack, which exposed a total of 130 million passwords.
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Cybercriminals then take over IoT gadgets by searching the web for those with default passwords.
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The company started notifying some Yahoo email users to reset their passwords on Thursday morning.
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Yahoo is reaching out to users, advising them to change passwords and upgrade their security.
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We encourage customers who used the MyTWC app to change their user names and passwords.
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First, true zero-knowledge iCloud would likely mean that Apple could not reset users' passwords.
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To protect yourself, you should use different passwords for different accounts and change them frequently.
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This will allow users to quickly change passwords whenever they're at risk of being compromised.
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And as security breaches become the norm, it's important that you don't reuse your passwords.
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This would afford customers the opportunity to take protective measures, such as changing their passwords.
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They hit Western Union's website for another 16,103 customer names, addresses, passwords, and credit cards.
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We're not disclosing the passwords, but suffice to say they were not difficult to guess.
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The upshot: Use different passwords on different sites and, whenever possible use two-factor authentication.
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They demanded the passwords, and he gave them incorrect ones, hoping to stall for time.
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Barclays, a British bank, uses voice recognition to help customers who have trouble with passwords.
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His father, meanwhile, shares his New York Times login in exchange for all those passwords.
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Other measures under consideration include demanding access to travellers' financial records and social-media passwords.
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Users were forced to reenter their passwords and log back in to their Facebook accounts.
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Everyone shares passwords, but for consumers there isn't a secure way to do that. Why?
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NordVPN says the server, located in Finland, did not contain activity logs, usernames, or passwords.
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His captors demanded his Facebook account passwords and his phone, but came up with nothing.
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Unfortunately, these webcams often come with weak default passwords, and many people don't change them.
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That's the kind of idiotic thing that might discourage people from using secure, randomized passwords.
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Our investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed.
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Because a lot of people reuse passwords, one company's security breach can affect multiple accounts.
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Websites save cookies in order to track how you're using them, and save your passwords.
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First, download a password manager that you can use to generate and store strong passwords.
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But you have to trust someone to protect all the things you hide behind passwords.
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And what's to prevent Shape from getting hacked and having the stolen passwords stolen again?
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An Instagram spokesperson disputed this, saying that the company hashes and salts its stored passwords.
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The app makes it easy to access all of your passwords securely from your iPhone.
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This saves you the pain of having separate user names and passwords for every account.
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Another file contained a list of network appliance devices with usernames and passwords in plaintext.
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Some of the exposed data, such as passwords and API keys, dated back six months.
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Click here for a site that lists the default passwords for 548 different router brands .
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Authorities believe that hackers accessed brokerage accounts using stolen or guessed passwords, according to investigators.
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Neither of these are great passwords per se, by the way, since they're too short.
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Three young Uighurs are told to turn on their smartphones and punch in the passwords.
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