Best Practices for Password Security After Recent Hacks | What the Cyber?
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What’s the difference between strong and unique password, and which one is better? Why you should lie to your "secret question"? Security expert Sean Sullivan goes through these topics and other basics of good password hygiene. As Twitter has been accidentally storing users’ passwords in plaintext, now is a great time to change your Twitter password, do a password spring cleaning and start using a password manager.
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HOW TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT PASSWORD BREACHES
"Twitter urged all 336 million of its members to change their passwords in early May because users existing passwords were all saved in an plain text on an internal log. This wasn’t a response to a known breach, but a proactive security measure. This announcement was an excellent reminder that now is a good time to take a look at all your passwords."
https://blog.f-secure.com/how-to-stop-worrying-about-password-breaches/
ARE YOU PART OF COLLECTION #1, THE LATEST HUGE EMAIL/PASSWORD DUMP?
"News of a huge new breached cache of email and password combinations hit yesterday. Security researcher Troy Hunt uploaded 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords from a data dump called “Collection #1” to his very useful Have I Been Pwned website, where users can go to find out if their email has been leaked in a breach. It’s a pretty huge number, and it’s the largest number that Hunt has ever uploaded to his site. But is it time to panic? What does it mean for you?"
https://blog.f-secure.com/are-you-part-of-collection-1-the-latest-huge-email-password-dump/
EVERYONE CAN USE A PASSWORD MANAGER – HERE’S HOW!
"Most people are aware that their password security is an issue. A US survey from four years ago showed 73% of consumers recognised the need to use strong passwords. This result came before Yahoo!, LinkedIn, and plenty of other headline-grabbing password breaches. So if everyone knows, why did Mark Zuckerberg famously continue to use “DaDaDa” as his password on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, etc.? Why are “123456” and “password” still by far the most common passwords (as seen in breaches)? Perhaps because knowing the problem is not the same as knowing what to do about it."
https://blog.f-secure.com/everyone-can-use-a-password-manager-heres-how/
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2018-05-09 13:29:36
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