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GUEST ESSAY: ‘World password day’ reminds us to embrace password security best practices

The Last Watchdog

We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021. Every year, the first Thursday in May serves as a reminder for us to take control of our personal password strategies. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives. Password overhaul. Stolen passwords that can lead to data leaks.

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Making authentication faster than ever: passkeys vs. passwords

Google Security

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Passkeys are not just easier to use, but also significantly faster than passwords. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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Election season raises fears for nearly a third of people who worry their vote could be leaked

Malwarebytes

The network of data brokers that political campaigns rely on to target voters with ads is enormous, as one Washington Post reporter found in 2020, with “3,000 data points on every voter.” Escaping this data collection regime has proven difficult for most people.

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Lumma/Amadey: fake CAPTCHAs want to know if you’re human

SecureList

Armed with BitLocker To Go, the attackers manipulate the registry, primarily to create the branches and keys that the Trojan needs to operate: That done, Lumma, again using the utility, searches the victim’s device for files associated with various cryptocurrency wallets and steals them: Then, the attackers view browser extensions related to (..)

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New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

Security Affairs

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Under Christmas tree you can find great gifts such as significant improvements of user interface (panel), modal windows on loading and expansion of data collection objects.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.