We’ve continued to cover Lastpass and their inconpitence, and now, thanks to podcast 905, we really know how bad it is. We’ll have more on the podcasts coming soon.
Besides Lastpass’s woes, we now turn our attention to the Norton Lifelock company. It apparently has a password manager, and they aparently got owned through Crential Stuffing.
The article was written today and comes to us at the folks at komando.com. Its titled Norton customer breach: Were your passwords stolen?
It has steps Norton Lifelock customers must take including changing your master password over there.
This is why I was really in no hurry to leave lastpass, although I understand its a pain in the ass but sometimes we must make the sacrifice.
With that said, I may at some point decide to leave lastpass and move over to Bit Warden, which may inheriently have the same issues as Lastpass currently does. Only time will tell.
I’ll be adding a term to the EMHS web page titled itteration. Apparently, there’s a back story to this, and I’ll talk about what I learned today by listen to Security Now.
If Norton Life Lock has the same issues as Lastpass does, and Bit Warden may just by mention, then we’re no better off. No wonder one of my buddies hasn’t adopted the password manager, although he chose a TNPO company which he didn’t know and it wasn’t his fault.
More later, but if you want to learn about the Norton issue, read the article and learn what steps you must do today.
Security now, podcast 906 will hopefully be covering the latest on this, Lastpass and more.
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This probably goes in to the “putting everything in one basket” department. At some point, the weakness is either someone, or something.
With that said, I’m not surprised, but we really don’t know the lastpass ordeal let alone this one.
They say that over 900 thousand former and current customers are affected by this. Just add it to have I been poned as the numbers just keep growing.
I’m in no hurry to switch, I believe all password managers may have a similar fault like Lastpass did, and I’ll discuss more during tomorrow’s podcast.
To be honest not surprised.
I have had a love hate relationship with big security software from avg and mcafee to norton since 2001 or there abouts.
Symantech really screwed norton over as far as I am concerned.
I did have a large rant ready to post but obviously my opinion is to strong for this family friendly article.
Point is if you want to know my side let me know.
The thing is now the hackers are going after online password managers now.
Now I have passwords for a lot of things, my bank, and a few others have different passwords but some stuff is shared with sites where its not a big deal or its single use for certain things.
I have never been in a huge breech though.