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The old advice is simple but still being ignored at scale: use a password manager and turn on 2FA everywhere it matters. The reality is most breaches still start with reused passwords or stolen credentials, not “elite hacking.” Password managers remove the human failure point by generating and storing unique credentials per site, which kills …
Russia’s largest airline went dark on July 28. Aeroflot’s internal systems were breached, locked, and shredded. The attackers say they had access for nearly a year. They moved through flight records, employee logs, internal comms. The group calls itself Silent Crow. Pro-Ukraine. Tied to Belarusian hackers. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed the intrusion. No …
Microsoft has confirmed plans to delete passwords for a billion users. “The password era is ending,” it says, warning those users that “bad actors know it, which is why they’re desperately accelerating password-related attacks while they still can.” The company now “blocks 7,000 attacks on passwords per second… almost double from a year ago.” It …
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them. At 9:30 am on a Wednesday in late September, a hacker who asked to be called Tom Smith sent me a nonsensical text message: “query voltage …