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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) – a cybersecurity measure that grants access to an account or application only after a user presents two or more pieces of evidence to prove they own the account – is often cited by experts as a simple but necessary protocol to protect against phishing attacks. Users can usually select a few […]
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