Published 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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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: 2025-07-01 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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 20:08:00
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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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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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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 13:58:00
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 05:14:58
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 20:30:03
Happy World Password Day. It's 2025 and much to the ire of security experts and regular people alike, we're still using passwords. Passwords are a pain to remember and enter every time you log into your ever-increasing multitude of connected devices and online accounts. And they can be cracked, with new technology like artificial intelligence tools making it easier for cybercriminals to guess or steal them. New technology like passkeys and password managers can go a long way toward reducing th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 04:00:17
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET World Password Day is a perfect time to think about the passwords you're using and whether you should update them. It may seem like there's a random holiday for everything, but this one actually matters more than most. According to the National Day Calendar, security researcher Mark Burnett proposed the idea of a "password day" in his 2005 book Perfect Passwords, so that people would take a moment to update their login credentials. Inspired by that suggestion, Inte
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 05:00:20
gremlin/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, password-less process is hardly bulletproof. But, our industry
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 05:00:05
Spring cleaning means more than just dusting off your curtains or decluttering your desk. It's also the perfect time to tidy up your digital life, starting with your passwords. World Password Day is observed on the first Thursday in May, a day that's been encouraging people to review their passwords and security settings since Intel created the event in 2013. Read more: Best Password Manager in 2025 Nearly every year, a list of the worst passwords makes the rounds online, and the same weak ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 23:21:15
Coinbase has fixed a confusing bug in its account activity logs that caused users to think their credentials were compromised. As BleepingComputer first reported earlier this month, Coinbase had mistakenly labeled failed login attempts with incorrect passwords as two-factor authentication failues in the Account Activity logs. When a threat actor attempted to access someone's account and used the wrong password, error messages stating "second_factor_failure" or "2-step verification failed" woul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 20:00:16
Hill Street Studios/Getty Images In a recent article from a well-known tech publisher that extolled the virtues of Bitwarden's password manager, the author wrote the following (by the time you read this, the passage may have been corrected): "Passkeys are an attempt to replace the password with a key that you don't have to remember or worry about at all. When you create a passkey for a website, the site spits out two pieces of code, one it saves on the server, one it saves on your device. When
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 03:00:17
JennaWagner/Getty Images Out of the blue, I received a text from my father asking me, "What's the difference between a password and a passkey?" Somewhere, in his daily online journey, he was prompted by a website or application -- a "relying party" in authentication lingo -- to create a passkey. But the benefit wasn't clear to him. Nor did there seem to be any urgency. He figured I'd know what passkeys are and what to do the next time he gets a nudge to set one up. I told him, "Let's talk befo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 10:00:26
iPhone users now have a new way to securely store and access login credentials. Apple’s new Passwords app (introduced with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia) is a big leap forward in making password management simple and user-friendly for Apple users, even if it's not as robust as other password managers. If you’ve ever fumbled through Safari settings to find a saved login or toggled through iCloud Keychain menus to edit credentials, the Passwords app is for you. It’s designed to give you a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 11:30:54
If you’ve ever been asked by Google Chrome to reset a password because of a data breach, then you understand just how unnerving it can be. These notices serve to illustrate the need for securing your accounts but repeating the process of generating and recalling individual passwords isn’t an easy feat. So that you won’t fall prey to the danger of using reused passwords, an effective password manager such as NordPass is just the ticket. It simplifies password management but it also enhances your
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 09:25:48
Suppose, not entirely hypothetically, that you have an Ubuntu 24.04 server system where you want to disable SSH passwords for the Internet but allow them for your local LAN. This looks straightforward based on sshd_config, given the PasswordAuthentication and Match directives: PasswordAuthentication no Match 127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 PasswordAuthentication yes Since I'm an innocent person, I put this in a file in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ with a nice high ordering number, say '60-no-passwords.c
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Suppose, not entirely hypothetically, that you have an Ubuntu 24.04 server system where you want to disable SSH passwords for the Internet but allow them for your local LAN. This looks straightforward based on sshd_config, given the PasswordAuthentication and Match directives: PasswordAuthentication no Match 127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 PasswordAuthentication yes Since I'm an innocent person, I put this in a file in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ with a nice high ordering number, say '60-no-passwords.c
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Valeriia Mitriakova/Getty Images Looking for advice on how to protect your home and office from cyberattacks? A good place to start is with the people who do this work every day on behalf of the US government. The folks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a simple Cybersecurity Basics page that boils down the technical information in its four-volume Digital Identity Guidelines to a set of clear guidelines for small business owners and managers. The most re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-13 06:45:53
Best practices in cybersecurity would tell you not to use the same password for all of your logins. Having one password you use for your Facebook, your email, your Target rewards program, and your Chase bank account is just a nightmare waiting to happen. If just one of the many websites or apps you have an account for experiences a data breach, then someone nefarious might gain access to not just that account but your entire lively hood of everywhere else you log into is now compromised. You cou
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We've all been there. You try to log into your bank account with your username and password only to be met with a generic "incorrect password" error. You double-check your password manager, try a few variations, but after too many failed attempts, the system locks you out. Now you're funneled into a tedious re-authentication process involving security questions you barely remember and a password reset form that smugly informs you, "New password can't be the same as the old one." You proceed to t
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