Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
If you trust someone with your passwords, their security needs to be very good – the popular online password bank LastPass has had some security problems recently and I have made my suggestions for an alternative way to store your passwords. Here is an opinion piece from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
OK the files are encrypted and supposedly will take forever to crack – using today’s technology. But the real issue here is that LastPass has taken all this time to work out that the hackers did get password files – something that LastPass has previously denied. That denial had reassured …
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Then you should be aware of this – they have suffered a follow up cyber security incident, using information from an incident in August, that breached their security again: Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach (bleepingcomputer.com) An investigation has revealed no customer encrypted passwords were compromised. I …
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:
Even though there are warnings all over the internet about the risks of reusing passwords and the ease that threat actors can run credential stuffing attacks to exploit this negligent behaviour – people still reuse passwords: DraftKings denies platform breach, says about $300,000 stolen from compromised accounts – The Record …
