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Lastpass, the password manager application, had reported that it found a security breach back in August. The perpetrator had supposedly stayed in the network for only 4 days and had access only to the development environment and not to the customer data or the password vaults. The threat actor had gained access to the development environment through one of the developer's endpoint by impersonating as...

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Summer of Sanity Passphrases Episode 2 The biggest downside of passwords is that it is a shared secret - shared between the user and the validator. Unfortunately, passphrases also share the same disadvantage, though they fare way better in so many other ways.   Systems designed to use passwords or passphrases can be made to not store the passwords in readable form or even make it inaccessible to users...

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