Cyberattacks and data breaches are a fact of everyday life, but there are ways to make sure your passwords – and your most sensitive information – isn’t caught up.
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Cyberattacks and data breaches are a fact of everyday life, but there are ways to make sure your passwords – and your most sensitive information – isn’t caught up.
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1Password remembers all of your online logins so you don’t have to.
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Those strings of symbols and numbers are probably bad passwords. Also the whole system of online passwords must die.
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The hacking of the password manager should make us reassess whether to trust companies to store our sensitive data in the cloud.
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The Optus data breach made me realise, I've used the same password for everything for over a decade. Here's what I learned while updating it.
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The advice for years has been to use password managers. But even these don’t completely eliminate the risk of being compromised.
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Passwords protect so many parts of our lives, from our money to our businesses and even the appliances in our smart homes. Remembering all these passwords can be a real challenge, particularly when every account has different password requirements. That’s where password managers can help.
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Start 2022 by improving your password hygiene. Ideally you can use a password manager, but at the very least make sure your financial, social and work accounts each has their own strong, unique login.
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How a few changes can solve most of your password security problems.
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Everyone should use a password manager, and after researching dozens and testing four, we recommend 1Password because it’s secure and easy to use.
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Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can’t tap that wealth because you forgot the password to your digital wallet?
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When it comes to updating passwords, we are creatures of habit -- and change is hard.
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One website dedicated to tracking stolen passwords suggests there are details of currently more than 10 billion compromised accounts available online.
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From reusing credentials to using a company name as a password, there are concerns about the security approaches used by small businesses.
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Criminals usually pick out areas with perceived vulnerabilities to carry out cyber attacks
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Exclusive: A new study finds bugs in five of the most-popular password managers. So how is it safe to keep all your eggs in one basket?
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A study found that government officials tend to be quite lazy when choosing a password.
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Getting a password manager is the most important way to improve your online security. Our tech columnist picks the best.
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Sports teams, famous brands and comic book characters aren't great options.
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Our passwords are bad, and we should feel bad about it: Every year, SplashData releases a list of the most popular passwords discovered in data breaches released online over the - New Zealand Herald
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Even with a major overhaul in how we identify ourselves online, hackers may still find workarounds. But in time, we may be able to enjoy a system that's more convenient for everyone--and less prone to horror stories for the unfortunate few.
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Several significant data breaches have occurred over the last several days, and some criminal activity using previously stolen data has also occurred very recently -- a reminder to users security on e-commerce sites is not solely in the hands of the merchant.
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Yahoo has confirmed hackers looted nearly a half million passwords and email addresses from one of its servers.
A hacker group calling itself D33DS posted online a massive trove of data it said was unencrypted in a file pilfered from the Sunnyvale, California-based internet pioneer "as a wake-up call not as a threat".
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Users of Formspring, a social question and answer website popular among young teenagers, today learned their passwords were disabled by site administrators following a security breach.
An email sent by the Formspring team stated that passwords were disabled "for security reasons" and needed to be reset when users next logged in.