The Rise of Credential Stuffing Attacks

Credential stuffing attacks use stolen passwords to log in at scale. Learn how they work, why they’re rising, and how to ...

Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...

Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...
Android Police

Please stop using Google Password Manager to save your credentials

Each one of our favorite Android phones comes with Google's password manager built in. It offers a convenient and safe way to store your credentials and is much better than relying on your memory to ...

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
Newsweek

149 Million Gmail, Facebook Passwords Stolen: Has Yours Been Leaked?

More than 100 million passwords have been stolen in a data leak. A database that contained 149 million account usernames and passwords has been removed after a researcher reported to the hosting ...
Metro

Hacker gets into Epstein’s personal email after password ‘exposed’ in files

Redditors have claimed that they’ve hacked into Jeffrey Epstein’s Outlook email address using a pretty obvious password, which was mentioned in the files. Reports claim passwords from several of ...
The Mirror

'Hackers' claim to have accessed Epstein's personal email using 'obvious' password

'Hackers' claimed that they have access to Jeffrey Epstein’s private Outlook email account after figuring out an 'obvious' password mentioned in the latest release of the files. Last week, the US ...
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Still using passwords? That's risky. Here's why you should switch to passkeys now

Even though everyone knows 12345" is a terrible password, it still lands at the top of "worst password" lists. We get it, no one likes remembering passwords, and changing them after every data breach ...
ZDNet

What is a passkey? The easy explanation - and how they beat passwords

Passkeys let you sign in without typing or remembering passwords. Unlike passwords, they're resistant to phishing. Syncable passkeys make secure sign-ins easy across devices. Over the past year or so, ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...