Published on: 2025-06-05 04:00:00
1Password has long been one of our favorite password managers. It's our upgrade pick for all the extra features it offers compared to other password managers. 1Password has apps that work just about everywhere, including on macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. There are plug-ins for your favorite web browser too, which makes it easy to generate and edit new passwords on the fly. You can get savings on the company’s suite of products with our 1Password coupon. There are also some v
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 17:49:49
The Microsoft Authenticator app is now issuing notifications warning that the password autofill feature is being deprecated in July, suggesting users move to Microsoft Edge instead. Microsoft Authenticator is a free mobile authenticator app that provides secure sign-in for mobile accounts using multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods like time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs), push notifications, biometrics-based confirmations, and password-less logins to Microsoft accounts. Earlier this mon
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 11:18:00
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images You might have seen the news of a database leak containing 184 million passwords tied to accounts from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox and other organizations. The report by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler on Website Planet says login credentials for bank and financial accounts, health platforms and government portals from numerous countries were also exposed. The data was left unprotected by an unknown database owner and then accessed by
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 20:37:14
JuSun/Getty Images Yet another data breach has exposed passwords and other sensitive information – but this one is a whopper. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published Thursday. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of applications and websites, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were stored in a file
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JuSun/Getty Images Yet another data breach has exposed passwords and other sensitive information – but this one is a whopper. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published Thursday. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of applications and websites, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were stored in a file
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 01:45:21
JuSun/Getty Images Yet another data breach has exposed passwords and other sensitive information – but this one is a whopper. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published Thursday. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of applications and websites, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were stored in a file
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:05:37
Today's report by security expert Jeremiah Fowler of a massive unsecured database full of usernames and passwords shouldn't necessarily frighten you, but it should spur you to action. If you have any weak passwords protecting accounts with sensitive information, or if you've reused the same password — however strong — on multiple accounts, now would be an excellent time to change them and set up two-factor authentication. Fowler reported on Website Planet that the database, which he found unloc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 21:09:11
In Brief Microsoft and law enforcement have announced a court-authorized takedown of Lumma, a prolific info-stealer malware operation found on more than 394,000 Windows PCs globally, mostly in Brazil, Europe, and the United States. The tech giant took civil action to ask a federal court to seize 2,300 domains that served as the malware’s network of command and control servers. The Justice Department also seized five domains used to operate the Lumma infrastructure. The Lumma password stealer
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:50:54
Google Chrome has announced a feature for its built-in password manager that it claims will let users instantly change passwords compromised in data breaches. Google Password Manager already alerts you when your credentials have appeared in a data breach, and partially automates the process of changing your password, but — until now — you still had to go through the steps manually for each of your online accounts. The Automated Password Change feature, announced at today's Google I/O keynote pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is going to let Chrome’s password manager automatically change your password when it detects one that is weak, the company announced at its Google I/O conference. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign-in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically,” according to a blog post. “On supported websites, Chrome can gener
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 09:17:33
Threat actors have been distributing trojanized versions of the KeePass password manager for at least eight months to install Cobalt Strike beacons, steal credentials, and ultimately, deploy ransomware on the breached network. WithSecure's Threat Intelligence team discovered the campaign after they were brought in to investigate a ransomware attack. The researchers found that the attack started with a malicious KeePass installer promoted through Bing advertisements that promoted fake software s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 16:41:00
If your phone number was one of the 89 million exposed in the recent data breach that affected Steam, the company says your info is safe. In a statement shared with CNET, Steam has denied that a reported data breach endangered its users' personal information. "Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account," the statement said. "Whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 09:00:22
Forget fingerprints or two factor authentication, scientists may have figured out a way to log into a computer with a synthetic molecule. In the new study published in the Cell Press journal Chem, researchers were able to store and decode an 11-character password encoded in the molecular makeup of a piece of plastic. The technology could help us meet our growing demand for energy-intensive long term data storage, the scientists suggest. “Molecules can store information for very long periods wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 10:08:00
Steam has denied that a reported data breach endangered its users' personal information. First reported by Underdark, a cybersecurity company, on LinkedIn, information for 89 million Steam accounts popped up for sale on the dark web, including text messages with validation codes and the phone numbers they were sent to. Steam, Valve's popular online gaming store and distribution platform, responded to the news last night with a statement saying, "We have examined the leak sample and have determ
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Steam has denied that a reported data breach endangered its users' personal information. First reported by Underdark, a cybersecurity company, on LinkedIn, information for 89 million Steam accounts popped up for sale on the dark web, including text messages with validation codes and the phone numbers they were sent to. Steam, Valve's popular online gaming store and distribution platform, responded to the news last night with a statement saying, "We have examined the leak sample and have determ
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A recent data breach has reportedly affected users of Steam, Valve's wildly popular online gaming store and distribution platform. The origin of the breach has not yet been confirmed, and Valve did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment. First reported by Underdark, a cybersecurity company, on LinkedIn, the information of 89 million Steam accounts popped up for sale on the dark web. The data allegedly includes users' one-time passwords and phone numbers. The threat actor says it'
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 05:14:00
Petri Oeschger/Getty Images With LastPass's browser extension for password management already well-positioned to observe -- and even restrict -- employee web usage, the security company has announced that it's diversifying into SaaS monitoring for small to midsize enterprises (SMEs). SaaS monitoring is part of a larger technology category known as SaaS Identity and Access Management, or SaaS IAM. As more employees are drawn to AI to improve productivity, the company is pitching an affordable
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 21:46:00
WhataWin/Getty Images Do you sometimes feel stuck in a Catch-22 regarding your long-term credential management strategy? You are. On the one hand, if the tech industry has its way -- to abolish all passwords and replace them with passkeys -- users will eventually have almost no choice but to rely on password managers for signing in to their favorite sites and apps. Yes, the days of committing user IDs and passwords to memory or cryptically scratching your passwords into an old day planner are
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 01:38:54
Tom Kelley/Getty Images These days, I'm very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and even Albania. At least, that's what it looks like based on this list of recent attempts to sign in to my Microsoft account: What these attackers don't know is that every password is incorrect for this passwordless account. Screenshot by Ed Bott/ZDNET If you're curious about who's trying to sign in to your Microsoft account, go to this management page: https://account.microsoft.com. After
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 00:32:00
Cracking the Codes: A new Hive Systems Password Table update highlights a growing concern: modern GPUs can crack hashed passwords faster than ever. As hardware improves, short or simple credentials provide little to no defense – making longer, more complex passphrases increasingly vital for security. Security company Hive Systems has been pushing the boundaries of password cracking using the latest GPU hardware since 2020. Its most recent Hive Systems Password Table update employs the GeForce R
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In this edition: I examined the password system for the 1997 game The Lost World: Jurassic Park in Ghidra, the reverse engineering tool. This allowed me to replicate it in Python and uncover some previously-unknown cheat codes. They enable a stage select screen, an invincibility mode, and two photo galleries. I also found hundreds of thousands of valid passwords (with duplicate effects) for then PlayStation version. Read on for the details! Here’s a video showing some of the new stuff: Intr
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hh5800/Getty Images Do you sometimes feel stuck in a Catch-22 regarding your long-term credential management strategy? You are. On the one hand, if the tech industry has its way -- to abolish all passwords and replace them with passkeys -- users will eventually have almost no choice but to rely on password managers for signing in to their favorite sites and apps. Yes, the days of committing user IDs and passwords to memory or cryptically scratching your passwords into an old day planner are n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 13:02:12
Passwords have long been the bedrock of online security, but the vulnerabilities are obvious, ranging from human error to phishing attacks. Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) could significantly enhance online authentication, complementing tried-and-trusted methods to bolster user safety. It’s increasingly clear that passwords alone simply aren’t enough. If a password is stolen or otherwise breached, the consequences can be serious. According to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 20:10:32
World Password Day (on May 1st) is an annual reminder of the – absolute – necessity of employing strong, unique passwords to protect your digital existence. In the midst of all the reports about compromised data and hacked accounts, (too) many individuals still persist in using weak or redundant passwords and put their online presence at risk in the process. The truth is, until you’ve tried using a password manager, you just can’t get how much easier and more secure it makes your life online. In
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emretopdemir/Getty Images Sooner or later, it's coming: You'll be logging into one of your favorite websites or applications, and you'll find no option to supply a user ID and password. There won't even be a password field. (The jury is still out on the user ID field.) You'll simply choose from a personalized dropdown list of credentials valid for that site or app and, if all goes well, you'll be granted access. Today, this auto-magical, passwordless process is hardly bulletproof. But, our ind
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 07:16:26
Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the password storage and autofill feature in the Authenticator app starting in July and will complete the deprecation in August 2025. The decision is to streamline autofill support and consolidate credentials management under a single platform, Microsoft Edge. The move requires action from impacted users as they are given until August 1, 2025, to export their information from Authenticator, or risk losing it. Microsoft Authenticator is a free m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 05:17:00
WTF?! The proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft to facilitate remote connections to Windows machines contains an outstanding security flaw. However, Microsoft has stated that it has no plans to fix the issue, as doing so would break compatibility with many applications. Independent researchers have discovered, or should we say rediscovered, a major security vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Previously known as Terminal Services, RDP appears to be designed to alwa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 05:14:58
Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive an industry-wide push to transition away from passwords and the costly security problems they have created for companies and their users. A key part of the “passwordless by default” initiative Microsoft announced on Thursday is encouraging the use of passkeys—the new alternative to passwords that Microsoft, Google, Apple, and a large roster of other companies are developin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 18:20:00
TL;DR: A new study analyzing more than 19 billion passwords from relatively recent data breaches between April 2024 and 2025 has found that the vast majority are weak. Alarmingly, only six percent of the leaked passwords were unique, leading researchers to describe a widespread epidemic of weak password reuse. Researchers with Cybernews found that most people (42 percent) use passwords that are eight to 10 characters in length, and that close to a third of those analyzed (27 percent) consist of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 20:05:53
Microsoft is once again moving closer to a passwordless future. In a bold step toward embracing passkeys – which uses cryptography to better protect data from hackers and phishing scams – new Microsoft accounts will now be passwordless by default. Instead, the company will issue a prompt to set up passkeys as part of an effort to make the process more secure. The company announced the news on World Password Day, which is observed on the first Thursday in May – a day that's been used to encoura
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