passwords
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Password Managers Are Actually A Really Good Gift
The holidays are nearly here, and that means you may be scraping up loose change in your sofa cushions for any gift-giving you plan to be doing this season. But the best gift you can give your loved ones this year—be they friends, family, or secret Santa pals—is a password manager.
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Google Is Baking-In A Tool To Help Break Your Terrible Password Habits
Google is rolling out its handy Password Checkup tool to a wider audience because let’s be honest: How good is your password protocol? If you share your login credentials, re-use passwords across accounts (whether or not you perceive those accounts as low-risk), or use easy-to-guess passwords for any of your accounts, the answer is: probably…
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Stop Using Hijacked Passwords That Google Already Told You Were Bad
In February, Google did us lazy bums a favour by adding a Password Checkup extension for Chrome. The way it works is the extension will send you a warning to change your password whenever logging-in to a site using a username or password that’s previously been leaked in a third-party data breach. This is all…
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Facebook Asked Some Users For Their Email Passwords, Then Downloaded 1.5 Million Contact Lists Without Consent
Last month, Facebook admitted that it was asking some users who signed up on desktop while using email addresses not supporting the OAuth open standard to give them the passwords to their email accounts — with options to avoid doing so hidden in a “Need Help?” sub-menu. Now the social media giant has admitted that…