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1) These five user passwords accounted for 3.2 million of the 130 million accounts that were stolen in the Adobe hack of 2013: “123456,” “12345678,” “Password,” “Adobe123” and “12345678.” source 2) An analysis of 11 million stolen passwords for cloud services conducted by Skyhigh Networks found that just 20 passwords constitute 10.3% of all passwords in

Regulators in New York State are proposing tough new restrictions on banks that could require them to spend millions of dollars on cyber security protection. We recommend you keep an eye on this proposed legislation in case it becomes a model for other states and industries. Among the measures in the proposed regulations, which are

Today, the attention of both IT and business managers in organizations of all sizes is fixed on cybersecurity. The reason is simple: Absolutely no organization is immune to cyber attacks in an ever-growing threat environment. This is particularly true for SMBs. A recent major study of some 600 SMBs unearthed startling findings that more than

Written by Guest Blogger, Patty Brogdon When it comes to cyber threats, it is no longer sufficient to throw technology at the problem, as had been the practice a decade ago. Organizations today are increasingly aware that combining a multi-tiered approach to security is the best bet in keeping their critical assets protected against theft.

Security managers clearly understand the consequences of poor information security practices, but they often find it difficult to change employee behavior.  Employees typically see security as a nuisance and as a result take the path of least resistance. Making security a top of mind issue for employees involves a combination of education and behavior modeling.

by Craig Lurey, CTO at Keeper Security, Inc. – August 26, 2016 Keeper holds the security of our customers and their data as our highest priority.  To mitigate the possibility of an online clickjacking attack during a browser session, we have updated our Keeper Browser extension.  We have made two security enhancements based on the analysis provided

By Craig Lurey, CTO & Co-founder of Keeper Security Keeper is awesome for DevOps teams. Back when we first created Keeper, our goal was to build a digital vault that was ultra secure but also easy to access and use. Website passwords are just one of many types of sensitive information that Keeper can protect.

Keeper’s engineering teams are working around the clock to provide you with the strongest experience on all major platforms and devices. Today, we’re excited to bring you the latest version of Keeper Desktop. Keeper Desktop is a cross-platform password manager and digital vault providing encrypted storage and seamless cloud synchronization on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Weak passwords: there’s no excuse for them yet we still see so many people using them.  It is often disregarded as unimportant and a result of not having a nominal level of security education and awareness. Weak passwords and password reuse account for over 70% of all computer and internet account breaches. People hate creating

2015 was a record breaking year for data breaches impacting almost every sector – healthcare, education, financial services, retail, the federal government and more. During the first three quarters of the year, over 3,000 data breaches were reported. Of course, the most eye-opening breach of all was at the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM),

‘Tis the season for holiday shopping and hackers! As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach us, the two biggest shopping days of the year, it’s imperative that consumers everywhere follow some simple steps to protect themselves and their wallets. This level of security awareness should not only apply during the holiday season but ALL the

Professional hackers at SkyCure have discovered a major security vulnerability in iOS, that allows a malicious WiFi hotspot to launch a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack.  The ‘No iOS Zone’ flaw, works by exploiting the SSL security certificate of iOS 8 that leaves a device wide open. The SkyCure CEO said, “This is not a denial-of-service

A security researcher, Kamil Hismatullin, discovered a major flaw in the YouTube API that allowed people to delete any videos on YouTube.   He was searching for YouTube vulnerabilities to report to Google for a cash reward when he found this code: POST https://www.youtube.com/live_events_edit_status_ajax?action_delete_live_event=1 event_id: ANY_VIDEO_ID session_token: YOUR_TOKEN   In order for someone to delete the video, all

On Sunday, Yahoo launched a new service called “on-demand” passwords, which lets someone log into a Yahoo account using a unique, one-time code that is delivered via text message.  It’s basically two-factor authentication without the first step. Sounds interesting, but it begs the question, how secure are on demand passwords? The whole point of multi-factor

Google’s expert team of hackers at Project Zero have discovered a serious flaw in modern DRAM devices.  The flaw encourages computer vendors to cough up more information about hardware flaws, and is exploitable on x86 laptops.  Google is encouraging vendors to release information about affected devices so that researchers and further evaluate the rowhammer problem.

Lenovo’s website was hacked yesterday. Just a week after it was announced that Lenovo was installing “Superfish” adware on its factory-fresh laptops, the Lizard Squad has hacked the Lenovo.com website and turned it into a slideshow of webcam images set to pop music.  This is the same group that took down the Playstation Network and Xbox Live

Lenovo is pre-installing adware, called SuperFish, to factory-fresh laptops that hijacks search results on all browsers and has the ability to steal private data including passwords.   The adware injects third-party ads into Google searches and into websites without the user’s permission.   If you own a Lenovo laptop, you can go here to see if

It’s been quite a year in cybersecurity. 2014 saw many high-profile hacks, leaks and breaches. The most recent attack on Sony was among a handful of massive data breaches this year including those against eBay, Home Depot and JPMorgan Chase. Ultimately, what we have learned is that cybersecurity is not an option. It is essential

Tis the season, Keepies! The holidays are here, and that means it’s time to make that list and check it twice. Whether you’ll be shopping online or braving the crowds, it’s also the time of year to be extra careful with your financial information. This time last year, Target stores across the country were hit

At Keeper we believe everyone deserves to feel safe and protected online. That’s why we created Keeper. Free versions of Keeper (mobile and desktop apps, browser extensions) provide users with only basic access to the Keeper Vault, but it does not include the option to–you guessed it–back up files to Keeper’s Cloud Security Vault. So,