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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …