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Since I am a decent fan of the XKCD no 936 (or actually conclusions and implications it brings), I wanted to test (using try zxcvbn) the complexity and the possiblity of breaking a password like the following one:
My password for Facebook… Continue reading Why removing just one letter form passwords makes it 20x easier to break according to zxcvbn test
Bitwarden has recently announced passwordless authentication support for its web… Continue reading Bitwarden Adds Passwordless Authentication Support to Secure Web Vault
Situation: a new client came to me because of a torrent of identity theft issues. One of the issues: several of their Google accounts were having their passwords changed every few days. Each time, they’d lose access, and someone else would… Continue reading Resetting a well-protected Google account password
More specifically, if Bob Smith uses 123456 as his password, no other user in the system can use 123456. This seems like a security risk to me. Technically, if someone knew something about Bob (he likes UCLA and fishing) and were to change… Continue reading Is it a security risk to require passwords to be unique across all users? [duplicate]
Assume that I never check the server fingerprint when logging in to an SSH server. This means that certain configurations of SSH can be impersonated. For example, I can log into a server that only has my public key. Obviously this doesn’t … Continue reading Can an SSH server in password mode be impersonated if I ignore the fingerprint warning?
The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.
Continue reading LastPass Security Breach
A bank I (previously) used in Australia forced users to comply with a 6-character limit on every password. Specifically, the rules were:
6 characters exactly, including at least 1 number and letter
No more than 2 repeating characters
No b… Continue reading My Bank Enforces A 6 Character Limit On Passwords. Is This Bad?
According to NordPass’ latest list of top 200 most common passwords in 2022, “password” is the most popular choice, followed by “123456”, “123456789”, “guest” and “qwerty“. 2022 is endin… Continue reading The top 200 most common passwords in 2022 are bad, mkay?
When you try to add a new email account in Outlook, it displays a Remember password checkbox, which helps you save the password for future use. However, if the Remember password option is missing in Outlook, follow these solutions to get it back. It ma… Continue reading Fix Remember password option missing in Outlook
The bank of a friend changed password policy, such that you are limited to 20 characters. However, he used 24 letters before and thus was not able to log in anymore.
He called his advisor, who suggested, he should try to log in with the fi… Continue reading Should a bank be able to shorten your password without your involvement?