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Millions of patients possibly at risk due to poor passwords at healthcare orgs – here’s how to stay safe
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Millions of patients possibly at risk due to poor passwords at healthcare orgs – here’s how to stay safe

NordPass and NordStellar reviewed terabytes of data The analysis uncovered poor password practices in the healthcare industry Organizations are lacking staff training and...

Your favorite restaurant is probably really bad at passwords
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Your favorite restaurant is probably really bad at passwords

Hospitality businesses are among the worst at maintaining good password health 123456789 and P@ssw0rd were among the top 20 most used Using better...

You can now auto-change compromised passwords with Chrome’s Credential Manager
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You can now auto-change compromised passwords with Chrome’s Credential Manager

Chrome’s password manager will now allow for automated password change The new feature helps reduce friction, Google says Passwords remain the number one...

Complex passwords could be cracked in weeks using powerful consumer graphics cards like Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPUs
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Complex passwords could be cracked in weeks using powerful consumer graphics cards like Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPUs

Twelve RTX 5090 GPUs can crack short (but complex) passwords in days Password complexity and length drastically increase time needed to brute force...

Microsoft RDP apparently lets you log in with expired passwords – and it apparently doesn’t have plans to fix the issue
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Microsoft RDP apparently lets you log in with expired passwords – and it apparently doesn’t have plans to fix the issue

Security researcher Daniel Wade discovers worrying Microsoft RDP feature This allows old credentials to be used when logging in Microsoft has confirmed it...

This critical FortiSwitch flaw allows hackers to change admins passwords, and they can even do it remotely
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This critical FortiSwitch flaw allows hackers to change admins passwords, and they can even do it remotely

Fortinet found an escalation of privilege flaw in multiple versions of FortiSwitch The flaw was given a critical severity score A patch and...

Businesses still haven’t stopped using weak passwords, and it’s getting super risky
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Businesses still haven’t stopped using weak passwords, and it’s getting super risky

Businesses still haven’t stopped using easily crackable passwords Germany, the US, and China suffer the most password breaches 123456, password, and qwerty are...

1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on where you are
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1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on where you are

1Password app gains new geolocation-based controls New ‘Nearby’ card on the homepage shows relevant data After successful labs testing, it’s available to all...

Private API keys and passwords found in AI training dataset – nearly 12,000 details leaked
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Private API keys and passwords found in AI training dataset – nearly 12,000 details leaked

Truffle Security found thousands of pieces of private info in Common Crawl The archives are used to train some of the biggest LLMs...