If you’re tired of making the usual New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or save money, we have one you can do from your couch that will still have a positive impact on your life. In 2023, resolve to get a handle on your passwords, whether that’s pledging to create stronger passwords, implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA), or changing compromised credentials. 2022 was another record year for cyberattacks that impacted people’s wallets and peace of mind.
Sharing a Netflix account between family members might not seem like a big deal, but shared accounts can put you at risk. Individual users should consider that sharing login details can increase the chances of your details getting into the wrong hands. Shared access between family members is one thing, but what about shared accounts between co-workers?
There are currently over 24 billion exposed credentials circulating the dark web, according to a 2022 report by Photon Research Team. In fact, the markets selling compromised credentials are even offering cybercriminals subscription services for purchasing these usernames and passwords. No wonder there has been a 65% increase in exposed credentials on the dark web since the last time this report was conducted in 2020.
LastPass, a competitor, recently announced that password hashes were included in an August 2022 breach of their cloud storage. Their notice claimed that if users had followed default settings, “it would take millions of years to guess your master password using generally-available password-cracking technology.” That claim is highly misleading.
Biometric authentication technology has come a long way and is more common than ever. It’s how most of us unlock our phones now. However, true passwords will never go away for everything. A password manager can help us easily organize and secure passwords.
Passwords are the most basic and common authentication method used to secure access to systems. But the process of using and maintaining secure passwords for numerous platforms can be quite tedious. According to Verizon`s 2020 Data Breach Investigation Report, weak, and re-used passwords resulted in 81% of data breaches. Apart from that, there are many more vulnerabilities and risks related to passwords, passwords are an increasingly unsuitable authentication option.
Many business customers have migrated from LastPass to Keeper over the past several years. As a result of recent news surrounding LastPass’ data breach, customers are asking what they should do to ensure passwords migrated from LastPass to Keeper are updated, in case backup files from LastPass that may remain on LastPass’ infrastructure, have been accessed by the attackers.
In today’s society, social media has become a prevalent method of communication and sharing the highlights of our daily lives has become the norm. Unfortunately, there are many risks associated with oversharing in the digital world. Oversharing can be especially dangerous because of the tendency to expose sensitive information which jeopardizes your privacy and security.
Millions of people use Microsoft Excel to record, organize, and analyze important information. If you fall into this group, you may want to password-protect some of your most important spreadsheets and Workbooks.
