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Stop Making Passwords Too Complex

According to cyber experts, three random words is a more secure password policy than complex passwords of letters, numbers and symbols.

August 10, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If you’re still requiring users to create complex passwords with a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, think again, says the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC, the U.K. counterpart to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), maintains that complexity requirements and making users regularly change passwords is actually less secure than […]

Bitwarden Enhances Password Management at Scale for Business Users

June 30, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

New admin password reset empowers enterprise administrators to reset forgotten master passwords SANTA BARBARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bitwarden, the leading open source password manager for business, today announced a broader set of password management features for enterprises seeking to ensure password security at scale. Admin Password Reset, a new policy feature available to Bitwarden enterprise plan customers, […]

My TechDecisions Podcast Episode 129: Moving Past Passwords

Myke Lyons, CISO of data intelligence company Collibra, joins the podcast to talk about how password security standards are evolving.

May 14, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Myke Lyons, CISO of data intelligence company Collibra, joins the podcast to talk about how password security standards are evolving.

Our Password Security Needs To Evolve

With compromised credentials playing a role in a majority of cyberattacks, we could be moving toward mandated MFA — or away from passwords altogether.

May 11, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Last week, the world celebrated World Password Day, a global holiday dedicated to password best practices and credential security as phishing attacks and credential harvesting continue to run rampant. The holiday has never been more important as compromised credentials play a role in more than 80% of global cyberattacks. And, despite the growing technical ability […]

Five Tips For Good Password Security on World Password Day

Credential theft remains a major factor in cyberattacks, so IT professionals and end users should be doing their part to promote password security.

May 6, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Today is World Password Day, which is a global holiday dedicated to the promotion of password security and keeping accounts secure with password best practices. The holiday is particularly important now, as cybercriminals feel emboldened by recent large-scale nation state hacking campaigns targeting U.S. government agencies, healthcare, education and technology companies through compromises, highlighted by […]

Password Manager Compromised In Supply Chain Attack

April 26, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In yet another supply chain attack, a “sophisticated” threat actor has compromised an update of password manage Passwordstate that was available for download for more than two days before the malicious activity was discovered. Click Studios, the Australian company that owns Passwordstate, said customers that performed an in-place upgrade between April 20, at 8:33 p.m. […]

LastPass Now Charges for Password-Storing Features

LastPass has decided to charge users for a fairly basic set of features which were once free. Do you use a similar app at your org?

March 22, 2021 Adam Forziati Leave a Comment

The password storing app LastPass now asks users to pay for unrestricted access after recently being acquired by private equity. The application replaces the act of using insufficient passwords with a service which takes over the authentication process by generating — and saving — more complicated passwords. Elliott Management and Francisco Partners are the equity […]

Ubiquiti Tells Users to Change Passwords After Security Breach

The company said it recently became aware of unauthorized access to some IT systems hosted by an undisclosed third-party cloud provider.

January 12, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Ubiquti, a maker of networking equipment and IoT devices, has notified its customers of a recent security breach. In an email to customers that was posted on company forums, the company said it recently became aware of unauthorized access to some IT systems hosted by an undisclosed third-party cloud provider. The company, a large provider […]

The Generation With the Worst Password Hygiene Is…

This generational group is more likely to reuse passwords for work, a sign of bad password hygiene practices which could make your company less secure.

January 4, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

About two-thirds of full-time employees in the USA reuse passwords on work accounts and devices, according to Visual Objects. Recycling the same password on multiple accounts is like having one key for every door — if cybercriminals crack that password, they can access all those accounts. Visual Objects is not a cybersecurity company; instead, it serves as […]

Make Sure NOBODY in Your Organization Uses These Worst Passwords

You should probably send a company-wide memorandum discouraging any usage of the following worst passwords imaginable - because people DO use them.

November 23, 2020 Adam Forziati Leave a Comment

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: USE A PASSWORD MANAGER TO HAVE DISTINCT PASSWORDS FOR EVERY APP AND WEBSITE. Yes, we just yelled that at our screens. Did you hear us? We’re taking such a harsh approach because we’re frankly tired of writing so many stories on the importance of password management. […]