January 14, 2020

Google tests biometric authentication for Android autofill

Google is testing out a feature to make Android's built-in password manager safer.

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December 20, 2019

Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again

Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.

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April 23, 2019

Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’

A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.

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February 07, 2019

Chrome extension warns users their login credentials have been breached

Google's released a Chrome extension, Password Checkup, that's designed to warn users when they enter a username and password the company has detected in a data breach.

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February 01, 2019

Credential dump contains another 2.2 billion pwned accounts

How many user credentials have fallen into the hands of criminals during a decade of data breaches? Billions, according to two recent discoveries.

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January 29, 2019

Credential-stuffing attack prompts Dailymotion password reset

Dailymotion is resetting the account passwords of an unknown number of users after being hit by a “large-scale” credential stuffing attack.

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January 18, 2019

Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records

A cybercrook is offering a giant stash of stolen emails and passwords, dubbed Collection #1 - allegedly the first of several such dumps

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December 17, 2018

Worst passwords list is out, but this time we’re not scolding users

This is on you, makers of sites and services that allow users to create passwords like "password." You can do better!

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December 14, 2018

Kanye West tops the charts for year’s worst password pratfall

Kanye, please keep your "all zeroes! all the time!" password away from the media. And Nutella? No, "Nutella" is NOT a good password.

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