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1Password Browser Extension

The Most Common Password Used Amongst CEOs

May 25, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

The tech industry is one of the most breached sectors, according to the latest study by NordPass. The findings suggest high-level executives worldwide are still practicing poor password hygiene, as the most popular password remains “123456.” NordPass, in partnership with independent researchers analyzing cyber incidents, compiled a list of top passwords used by top-level executives. […]

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LastPass Business Announces Integrations with PingOne and PingFederate

March 22, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Password management provider LastPass announced new integrations with Ping Identity, including PingOne and PingFederate to better serve enterprise businesses. Customers using PingOne and PingFederate as its identity provider (IdP) can now integrate with LastPass to simplify access management and easily scale proper password hygiene across entire organizations, saving time for IT departments while keeping data […]

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Stop Making Passwords Too Complex

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 […]

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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. […]

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LastPass Now Charges for Password-Storing Features

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 […]

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The Generation With the Worst Password Hygiene Is…

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 […]

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World Password Day

Make Sure NOBODY in Your Organization Uses These Worst Passwords

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. […]

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Microsoft: Move Away From Phone-based Multi-factor Authentication

November 12, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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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