And that’s exactly what happened to LastPass, one of the most popular password managers on the market and – due to this very same reason – a company that is a regular target of constant hacker attacks.Īlthough similar attacks occurred in 2011, 20, the most recent is the most relevant right now: on March 20 2017, Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy reported to LastPass that its extensions could have given hackers the opportunity to access internal commands, and thus enable them to remotely steal passwords. So if this plug-in is compromised, it’s bad news for everyone – except the hackers that is. LastPass: Faulty Browser Plug-insīrowser add-ons are crucial for password managers to be able to work properly, otherwise they couldn’t import all those passwords you use on various sites. Thankfully developers of these apps reacted faster than you can say Jack Robinson, and released patches on March 1 2017, way before the findings of TeamSIK were officially published. The biggest blunder, however, was committed by the apps of Informaticore and LastPass: the master passwords of users appeared as plain text or the encryption key itself was exposed in the code, making the apps vulnerable to data residue attacks and clipboard sniffing. These nine at-risk companies were LastPass, Keeper, 1Password, My Passwords, Dashlane, Informaticore’s Password Manager, F-Secure KEY, Keepsafe, and Avast Passwords. In February 2017 a group of security experts from TeamSIK discovered that the apps of nine of the most popular password manager companies were at risk of being hacked. As a final insult, users were given a list of instructions consisting of 12 steps that could’ve made even tech-savvy users frustrated.
customer data had been compromised to such extent that hackers could easily decrypt the supposedly encrypted data. To pour salt into the wound caused by this catastrophic communication, OneLogin not only forced its users to seek the solution on a registration-required support page, but then this very page also revealed that in fact all U.S. At first the problem didn’t seem too serious, but users later reported that the emails they received from the company were more than worrying. On May 31 2017, identity management outfit OneLogin alerted its users on its blog that “unauthorized access to OneLogin data in our U.S. Kicking off our list is the most recent and only bad example of how a company should react when it comes to properly telling its customers that their data may or may not have been compromised. Click to Reveal Coupon OneLogin: ‘Tis But a Scratch!
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