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Have I Been Pwned teams up with the FBI to collect a lot more stolen passwords
By Paul Lilly published
News The FBI now has a direct line to HIBP to inject compromised passwords into its database as it takes down botnets.

LastPass password manager’s free tier is about to become a lot less useful
By Paul Lilly published
News Users of the free service will soon have to choose between PC or mobile devices.

You need to change your password if it's anywhere on this list of the most easily cracked
By Paul Lilly published
News It takes less than a second to crack the majority of the most widely used passwords of 2020.

Juggling passwords is a chore, and soon you might not have to
By Paul Lilly published
News A newly approved web standard supported by every major browser could let you log into all your accounts without a password.

Google’s new Chrome extension squeals on compromised passwords
By Paul Lilly published
News Safer surfing.

Massive data dump exposes 770 million email addresses and 21 million passwords
By Paul Lilly published
News It's the largest-ever collection of compromised accounts.

‘123456’ is an incredibly bad password, and also still the most popular
By Paul Lilly published
News Don't use 'password' either.
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