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How “123456” became the key to almost 9 million personal records | Malwarebytes

510 · passwords · horrorstories

October 12, 2026 at 8:46:58 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/10/how-123456-became-the-key-to-almost-9-million-personal-records

Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers - Ars Technica

Nice trick.

510 · passwords

September 11, 2026 at 8:39:54 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/android-can-now-securely-migrate-your-logins-between-password-managers/

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you | The Verge

NO. OMG NO. BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD IDEA.

510 · passwords · agenticai

July 16, 2026 at 9:59:49 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/966442/1password-anthropic-claude-browser-integration

Zombie user account let hackers control the city’s water

510 · insiderthreat · casestudy · passwords

May 22, 2026 at 1:57:33 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/21/zombie-user-account-let-hackers-control-the-citys-water/5243724

Password managers keep your passwords safe, unless… | Malwarebytes

510 · passwords

February 23, 2026 at 2:45:46 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/password-managers-keep-your-passwords-safe-unless

Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design - Irregular

ai · passwords · 510

February 19, 2026 at 3:14:16 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.irregular.com/publications/vibe-password-generation

Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED

510 · passwords · opsec · stalkerware · surveillance

January 23, 2026 at 12:18:55 AM UTC · permalink

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https://www.kqed.org/news/12070531/your-digital-footprint-reveals-more-than-you-think#episode-transcript

1Password is introducing a new phishing prevention feature | The Verge

Ask students their sense of whether this will be effective. (I think it is vulnerable to habituation.)

510 · passwords · phishing · typosquatting

January 22, 2026 at 5:42:38 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/864980/1password-security-phishing-attack-prevention-password-browser-extension-scammers

US cargo tech company publicly exposed its shipping systems and customer data to the web | TechCrunch

How to get LITERALLY EVERYTHING about webapp development and incident response wrong.

510 · breaches · incidentresponse · passwords

January 14, 2026 at 4:58:40 PM UTC · permalink

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/us-cargo-tech-company-publicly-exposed-its-shipping-systems-and-customer-data-to-the-web/

Your passwords don't need so many fiddly characters, NIST says | Malwarebytes

510 · passwords

October 13, 2025 at 7:17:03 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/your-passwords-dont-need-so-many-fiddly-characters-nist-says

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company

510 · passwords · horrorstories · ransomware

July 21, 2025 at 10:24:41 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gx28815wo

Half of login attempts use leaked passwords | Cybernews

510 · passwords

April 16, 2025 at 3:16:43 PM UTC · permalink

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https://cybernews.com/security/half-login-attempts-use-compromised-password/?source=mastodon&medium=social&campaign=cybernews&content=post

Assessing website password practices – Unchanged after fifteen years? - ScienceDirect

510 · passwords · ux

April 4, 2025 at 6:46:54 PM UTC · permalink

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102790

Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised

510 · passwords

March 17, 2025 at 11:17:23 PM UTC · permalink

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https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/

Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN - ABC News

510 · passwords · mobile

January 28, 2025 at 6:36:21 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/almost-one-in-ten-people-use-the-same-four-digit-pin/103946842

Six password takeaways from the updated NIST cybersecurity framework

510 · passwords

December 5, 2024 at 6:32:10 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/six-password-takeaways-from-the-updated-nist-cybersecurity-framework/

How some of the world's most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong | Mildly-Aggrieved (not mad!) Scientist

510 · passwords

November 15, 2024 at 12:32:27 PM UTC · permalink

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https://stuartschechter.org/posts/password-history/

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext | Ars Technica

351 · 510 · facebook · passwords

September 30, 2024 at 2:40:57 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/meta-slapped-with-101-million-fine-for-storing-passwords-in-plaintext/

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules | Ars Technica

510 · passwords

September 26, 2024 at 7:26:28 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/nist-proposes-barring-some-of-the-most-nonsensical-password-rules/

How MFA Is Falling Short

510 · mfa · passwords · passkeys

April 25, 2024 at 2:51:16 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.kolide.com/blog/how-mfa-is-falling-short