Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The first one was about HSBC disclosing a "security incident" which, upon closer inspection, boiled down to this: The security incident that HSBC described in its letter seems to fit the characteristics of brute-force password-guessing attempts, also known as a credentials stuffing attack.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Truglia admitted to a New York federal court that he let a friend use his account at crypto-trading platform Binance in 2018 to launder more than $20 million worth of virtual currency stolen from Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. The leading B2C VPNs all recognize this and have begun promoting the use of personal VPNs as, essentially, a DIY security tool. Related: Privacy war: Apple vs. Facebook.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2025

TotalAV is an antivirus product with a virtual private network (VPN) solution and other traditional antivirus and personal security features. 5 Security and privacy: 2/5 Customer support: 2.1/5 5 Security and privacy: 2/5 Customer support: 2.1/5 Other features include ad blocking and password management.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Back in 2018, Twitter said it was exploring encrypting those messages, but it hasn't yet. Class breaks are endemic to computerized systems, and they're not something that we as users can defend against with better personal security. In addition to security measures, the other solution is to break up the tech monopolies.

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