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  • These are the passwords you definitely shouldn’t be using

    These are the passwords you definitely shouldn’t be using

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    The password manager NordPass has once again released its annual list of the world’s most popular passwords — and the lack of creativity is just a little disheartening. For the second year in a row, “123456” has been crowned the most common password. The same numbers topped the chart five out of the six times…

  • The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

    The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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    The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks. The Internet Archive is…

  • 600,000 routers were bricked in a single cyberattack

    600,000 routers were bricked in a single cyberattack

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    A cyberattack was behind an incident last year that disabled over 600,000 internet routers across several Midwest states between October 25th and 27th, according to new research published by Lumen Technologies’ threat research arm, Black Lotus Labs. The incident wasn’t disclosed at the time, despite hundreds of thousands of routers being rendered inoperable. The investigation also…