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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

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By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. Palant said that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.”

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

Krebs on Security

Tony got into bitcoin back in 2013 and has been investing in it ever since. Both Griffin and Tony say they continue to receive “account security” calls from people pretending to work for Google or one of the cryptocurrency platforms.