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Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. Continue reading Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
The average internet user has over 150 online accounts, making it nearly impossible to create strong, unique passwords for each, and difficult to remember which accounts they created. With Inbox Security Scan, people have insight into the current state… Continue reading Inbox Security Scan identifies and protects critical online accounts
Dashlane announced the findings of an analysis of over 61 million passwords. The analysis was conducted with research provided by Dr. Gang Wang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Researchers examined the dat… Continue reading Password pattern analysis: Risky, lazy passwords the norm
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Today is a good time for you to audit your password practices and stop using terrible passwords to protect your online accounts. Experts advice that:
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Dashlane examined password and account security on 55 of the world’s most popular travel-related sites, and found that 89% of sites leave their users’ accounts perilously exposed to hackers due to unsafe password practices. Researchers tested each webs… Continue reading Most top travel websites fail to protect user security
Nothing should be more important for these sites and apps than the security of the users who keep them in business. Unfortunately, Dashlane found that that 46% of consumer sites, including Dropbox, Netflix, and Pandora, and 36% of enterprise sites, including DocuSign and Amazon Web Services, failed to implement the most basic password security requirements. Password Power Rankings The most popular sites provide the least guidance when it comes to secure password policies. Of the … More → Continue reading Password Power Rankings: A look at the practices of 40+ popular websites
Many major internet businesses catering to consumers and companies — including Dropbox, Amazon and Google — allow users to create passwords that consist of strings of a single character that are crackable in seconds, according to new research. The study, produced by password manager company Dashlane, checked the practices of 37 consumer-facing websites and apps for five basic password security measures — including whether new customers could create an account protected by a password using only a repeated single character. More than half of all the consumer sites researchers tested allowed a password with fewer than eight characters. Additionally, “researchers created passwords using nothing but the lowercase letter ‘a’ on Amazon, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Venmo and Dropbox, among others,” according to Dashlane. Of the consumer sites, only one, GoDaddy, implemented all five of the basic security measures. Netflix, Pandora, Pinterest, Spotify and Uber all got zero, because they implemented none. On the enterprise side, two of the […]
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Researcher Paulos Yibelo said that Dashlane elected not to patch a vulnerability he disclosed more than a year ago in all versions of the password manager application. Continue reading Dashlane, Researcher at Odds Over Potential Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
The popular password management utility Dashlane is making a move to go after the larger enterprise market today with the announcement of a new tool that will allow mobile employees to switch access both their personal passwords, as well as those assigned to them by their workplace, in the company’s mobile app. The tool, which is known as “Spaces,” first launched on the… Read More Continue reading Dashlane brings an enterprise password management tool to mobile devices
Keeping your passwords safe, updated, strong and less vulnerable to hacks is a challenge for everyone – even a few of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s online accounts were hacked over the weekend, for example, likely due to the new dump of LinkedIn account data. That’s where password management software can help. Today, the company behind one of the more popular solutions… Read More Continue reading Dashlane launches a password management tool for the enterprise