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  • 184 million accounts just leaked, yours could be next

    05/31/2025 5:08:00 AM PDT · by dennisw · 61 replies
    Kim Komando ^ | May 31, 2025 | By Kim Komando
    Hackers just hit a massive jackpot: 184 million accounts across Apple, Google and Microsoft were exposed in a sweeping data breach. I’m talking email addresses, usernames, passwords, device info (the whole buffet), now up for grabs on the dark web. Before you say, “I’m safe, I use strong passwords,” or “I’ve never been hacked,” take a second to think. These weren’t obscure services. This breach hit the biggest names in tech. Household-name-level oopsie. If your login credentials got caught in the cross fire, hackers are already trying to use them to break into your other accounts. The hidden risk It’s...
  • Computer Safety Discussion

    12/23/2024 10:23:41 AM PST · by Mean Daddy · 92 replies
    With everything going on in the world, I wanted to reach out to see what other Freepers are doing online to protect yourselves, whether its subscribing to a monitoring service for activity under your name, using VPN (which one & why), password managers, multi-factor authentication etc. What else should a person consider?
  • Windows 10 bundles a briefly vulnerable password manager (Passwords stolen by websites)

    12/18/2017 6:20:32 AM PST · by dayglored · 23 replies
    The Register ^ | Dec 18, 2017 | Richard Chirgwin
    Google Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy has turned up a howling blunder in a password manager bundled with Windows 10.On Friday, Ormandy dropped the bug, not in Windows but in the third-party Keeper password manager. He wrote: “I've heard of Keeper, I remember filing a bug a while ago about how they were injecting privileged UI into pages (issue 917). I checked and, they're doing the same thing again with this version. I think I'm being generous considering this a new issue that qualifies for a ninety day disclosure, as I literally just changed the selectors and the same attack works.“The...