Google is testing out a feature to make Android’s built-in password manager safer.
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Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.
Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.
Chrome extension warns users their login credentials have been breached
Google’s released a Chrome extension, Password Checkup, that’s designed to warn users when they enter a username and password the company has detected in a data breach.
Credential dump contains another 2.2 billion pwned accounts
How many user credentials have fallen into the hands of criminals during a decade of data breaches? Billions, according to two recent discoveries.
Credential-stuffing attack prompts Dailymotion password reset
Dailymotion is resetting the account passwords of an unknown number of users after being hit by a “large-scale” credential stuffing attack.
Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records
Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has revealed a huge cache of breached email addresses and passwords, which it has named Collection #1.
Worst passwords list is out, but this time we’re not scolding users
This is on you, makers of sites and services that allow users to create passwords like “password.” You can do better!
Kanye West tops the charts for year’s worst password pratfall
Kanye, please keep your “all zeroes! all the time!” password away from the media. And Nutella? No, “Nutella” is NOT a good password.
Terrible passwords outlawed in Microsoft’s new Azure tool
Azure AD Password Protection prevents users from setting a password from the company’s list of 500 most common and easily-guessed examples.