Use the “passwords” feature to check if one of yours is compromised. If it shows up, never ever reuse those credentials. They’ll be baked into thousands of botnets etc. and be forevermore part of automated break-in attempts until one randomly succeeds.
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Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.
And an email alias.
I hate how many places don’t allow for + aliases. I want to know who leaked my email.
At the same time, it is trivially easy to strip a + alias, so I’d not trust it to do anything much at all.
If you use aliases for all services, it makes it slightly harder to automate trying one leaked email on another site, since the hacker needs to add the new alias on the other service.
No one is going through of all these credentials manually, so any extra obscurity can actually bring you security in a pinch. Although if you have different passwords this shouldn’t matter much…
No, you just run a simple Regex on both combolists and are done. It literally takes seconds
No + required. There are hundreds of companies offering aliases using their shared domain. You can also just generate a temporary email address if you don’t require any ongoing communication and the account is not super important.
Even if your alias is leaked they can remove the + part and it’ll lead to your original email without aliases. They probably do some data formatting on emails to no get caught so easily and obviously.
+aliases are convenience aliases only. They are often stripped from ID datasets. Better to use a real alias.
I use a “password pattern”, rather than remembering all the passwords, I just remember a rule I have for how passwords are done, there are some numbers and letters that change depending on what the service is so every password is unique and I can easily remember all of them as long as I remember the rules I put in place
So when someone figures out your rule he has all the passwords
That is assuming that someone will sit there and try to decrypt password rules for that specific person. Chances of that happening are basically 0, unless they are some sort of a high interest person.
Also, length is most of what matters. A full length sentence in lowercase with easy to type finger/key flow for pw manager master, and don’t know a single other password. Can someone correct me if I’m wrong?
You are mostly correct it is length * (possible char values).
See passphrase generator.
https://www.keepersecurity.com/features/passphrase-generator
Correct horse battery staple
Don’t forget unique email addresses. I’ve had two spam emails in the last 6 months, I could trace them to exactly which company I gave that email address to (one data breach, one I’m pretty sure was the company selling my data). I can block those addresses and move on with my life.
My old email address from before I started doing this still receives 10+ spam emails a day.
I’ve started using {emailaddress}+{sitename}@gmail.com i.e. myemail+xyzCompany@gmail.com
That way I can at least see who sold my info. I wish I would have started doing this long ago though. Some sites dont let you use the plus symbol even though it’s valid though
This trick is common enough and trivial to reverse engineer. I can just purge my billion-email-address hacked list of all characters between a + and an @ and have a clean list that untraceable with your system.
And when that password manager gets cracked?
Got any examples? Because I have…some…examples of password reuse being a real-life problem.
LastPass recently, check Addie Lamarr’s channel on YouTube.
LastPass is the maximum shit. They got hacked like 3 times in a year and my company‘s password notes got leaked.
We are now with Bitwarden and this was the biggest security hardening measure we have taken.
God fucking dammit, I fucking hate seeing people self-censor themselves on the internet.
For me, if this happens, it has no impact since almost every page i sign up to has a unique password. The most important ones has mfa as well.
Use a password manager. Simple.
Right answer. In fact, the only viable answer.
The thing about this one is no one seems sure of the source (it appears to be from multiple sources, including infostealer malware and phishing attacks), so you don’t know which passwords to change. To be safe you’d have to do all of them.
Some password managers (e.g. Bitwarden) offer an automatic check for whether your actual passwords have been seen in these hack databases, which is a bit more practical than changing hundreds of passwords just in case.
And of course don’t reuse passwords. If you have access to an email masking service you can not only use a different password for every site, but also a different email address. Then hackers can’t even easily connect that it’s your account on different sites.
Let’s make a master list of all the emails leaked with their passwords, what could go wrong?
That’s not how it works
It’s exactly how it worked. A company called synthient made a master list with all the leaked emails + all leaked passwords. Then they were hacked and it leaked
Synthient wasn’t hacked, as a security company, they aggregated tons of stealer logs dumped to social media, Telegram, etc.
They found 8% of the data collected was not in the HIBP database, confirmed with some of the legitimate owners that the data was real.
They then took that research and shared it with HIBP which is the correct thing to do.
I was also thrown off by the title they gave it when I first saw it, a security company being hacked would be a terrible look. but they explain it in the article. Should probably have named it “list aggregation” or something.
Someone should make a list of all the leaked credentials that got leaked.
I think that’s HIBP basically?
Why did you censor yourself in the title?
Probably because they primarily live in a censorship world, be it digital or in-person, and change is difficult for most people.
They’ll censor “fucking”, but still use the Lord’s name in vain. smh.
No one gave you the memo?
You’re allowed to swear on the internet as long as you’re not one of the weird instances.
This is why my password is hunter2, no one can see what is says under the asterix,
(it’s asterisk)
for anyone who doesn’t get the reference, it’s an ancient Bash chatlog: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
Proud that my only pwned password is three decades old.
I’ve been “pwned” four times.
None of them due to my end. Every single fucker was a piss poor company security
