LastPass in a blog post revealed that since April 2023, all new users and existing users who took steps to reset their master password were required to follow the 12 ...

The best password managers are meant to keep all your logins and credit card info safe and secure, but a major new vulnerability has just put users of the KeePass password manager at serious risk of ...

The popular KeePass password manager is vulnerable to extracting the master password from the application's memory, allowing attackers who compromise a device to retrieve the password even with the ...

The secret code that users create in a stand-alone password manager application (not built into the browser) that is used to generate all the login passwords. The master password is similar in concept ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security ...

LastPass faced a major attack in 2022 after hackers gained access to sensitive user data through an exploit found on the computer of one of the engineers working for the company. More than two years ...

KeePass has released version 2.54, fixing the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability that allows the extraction of the cleartext master password from the application's memory. The popular KeePass password ...

One of the downsides with most password managers is that you have to protect your account with a master password. And if that password is weak or simple, your account logins are more vulnerable. Now a ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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