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2022-12-02 Cyber

Major password manager suffers another security breach

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-02 06:55|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 ...the company recently detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service that is shared by LastPass and affiliate GoTo.

There's your problem.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-02 07:54|| 2022-12-02 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Password managers that store data in the cloud are attractive to the same sorts of people who have a banking app on their smartphone.

D U M B

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-02 08:15|| 2022-12-02 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 LastPass was purchased by private equity. You can make your own conclusions about their priorities these days.

Personally, I like BitWarden.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-12-02 09:32|| 2022-12-02 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I keep mine on a stack of yellow sticky notes.

Right. Then you put those sticky notes in a locked drawer. That's what I used to tell the birdbrains at work who could never remember their passwords. It was amazing how many of them couldn't figure it out. Could be that some people are just not cut out for work on a computer.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-02 13:14|| 2022-12-02 13:14|| Front Page Top

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