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Tag: password recycling

Posted on 5 February 20255 February 2025

Groundhog Day and Cyber Security

Groundhog Day is like teach password hygiene

When Diana is the editor of the monthly Octagon Technology newsletter she likes to have a theme for the month, last month it was “Get Organised” this month her theme is the “Special Days in February” and to start things off I got Groundhog Day and the task of relating …

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Posted on 10 October 202411 October 2024

I don’t give a …

passwords recycling

This story is about the wise decision I made many years ago and have been preaching on this site and Octagon Technology and CyberAwake and every course and talk I have given. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine webistes have been hacked and the user authentication database containing 31 million …

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Posted on 5 September 20245 September 2024

Hackers hacking hackers!

That headline sounds like very good news for the rest of us. Hacker trap: Fake OnlyFans tool backstabs cybercriminals, steals passwords – BleepingComputer Although it is not all good news – the threat actors that developed the fake hacking tool, which installs the Lumma stealer information-stealing malware. on the threat …

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Posted on 18 October 202318 October 2023

On the day I run a password primer this is in the news…

Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use ‘admin’ as a password It seems even administrators need to read my password primer. Back to Basics – A Password Primer

Posted on 28 November 202216 January 2024

Are your passwords on this list?

They shouldn’t be but you never know: Top 200 Most Common Password List 2021 The infographic above will put you on the right track. My preference where possible is to go passwordless:

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