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Cyber security becomes more important every day as hackers continue to target users for personal information that can be sold for a profit on the dark web. With more than 10 million consumers engaged with Keeper on a daily basis, we thought it would be a good idea to find out a bit more about

Users approach security in a similar way as they do on their desktop computers. This can be a problem, given the unique vulnerability of a smartphone – the small computer that fits in your pocket.  Today, nearly 2.3 billion people use a smartphone. Keeper conducted a detailed survey of 1,000 smartphone users to determine how

This week it was revealed that the content delivery service provider, Cloudflare, was affected by a systemic vulnerability that leaked sensitive information from secure HTTPS connections. While the actual manifestation of the bug that caused the leak at first glance may seem relatively small, affecting an estimated 0.00003% of all requests to the Cloudflare service,

PDF version here. Cyber security becomes more important every day as hackers continue to target users for personal information that can be sold for a profit on the dark web. With more than 10 million consumers engaged with Keeper on a daily basis, we thought it would be a good idea to find out a

If you work at a small or midsize business (SMB), you must presume that your organization will fall victim to a cyber attack. It is imprudent to do otherwise, given that a major study of SMBs last year found that half of all SMBs suffered data breaches involving customer and employee information in the past 12

By Darren Guccione, Co-founder and CEO of Keeper Security Looking at the list of 2016’s most common passwords, we couldn’t stop shaking our heads. Nearly 17 percent of people are safeguarding their accounts with “123456.” What really perplexed us is that so many website operators are not enforcing password security best practices. Using external, public data

The new year is the time for resolutions, and what better way to enhance your peace of mind than to resolve to improve security? Here are some life hacks – or strategies to manage your life more efficiently – that you can adopt to improve online security, safeguard your home and protect your personal information.

2016 will go down as yet another banner year – unfortunately – for hackers and data thieves globally. This article looks at some of the successful attacks while probing for patterns and trends in cybercrime. Big target on the IoT: The Dyn DDoS attack. Our blog on cybercrime predictions for 2017 forecasted increasing efforts of

Threatpost breaks with the conventional wisdom that an information service funded by a technology company is inherently biased. The independent news site is owned by Kaspersky Labs, but its reputation as an authoritative, independent source of cyber security news has been endorsed by such leading news outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street

It’s the holiday season, and at Keeper that means our thoughts turn to security. Actually they turn to security every other time of the year, too, but now is when we think about what we could give that’s a little different. If you’re a Keeper customer, you already have password security covered. Here are some

With a new year just over the horizon, we asked six security experts for their views and opinions on what events and trends will unfold in 2017 in the cyber security space. These are people that have spent a great deal of time and energy on the front lines of the contemporary threat environment. 1)

Per Thorsheim, 45, has a self-described “insane” interest in passwords. As one of the world’s foremost security consultants focused solely on passwords, Thorsheim is the founder of PasswordsCon, the respected academic conference where international password security experts gather twice per year in Las Vegas and Europe. He spoke with us from his home in Bergen,

What do the words and advice of a former, highly successful CEO of IBM have in common with sound password management? The answer is surprising. Lou Gerstner, who propelled IBM to nearly 10 years of non-stop growth and prosperity, has a poignant message for top executives at all companies. When it comes to establishing corporate

Dr. Michael Pound’s current research focuses on image analysis for phenotyping crops, but you don’t have to be an expert in agriculture – or even computer science – to be frightened by this Computerphile video in which Pound demonstrates a deep-learning server called Beast at the University of Nottingham. Beast uses four parallel graphics processing

PDF version here. Cyber security becomes more important every day as hackers continue to target users for personal information that can be sold for a profit on the dark web. With more than 10 million consumers engaged with Keeper on a daily basis, we thought it would be a good idea to find out a

Benjamin Caudill – a veteran penetration tester – has broken into organizations, large and small, just about everywhere. In doing so, he has exposed security vulnerabilities and numerous pathways for hackers to do their worst to unsuspecting businesses. Caudill, who was dubbed a ‘deadly force that could easily penetrate and exploit a firm’s most private

Two years ago the CIO at Quest Credit Union  had no problem extending responsibility for password management beyond just the IT department. That’s because C-suite executives were using a password management solution for personal use. Thus getting the the organization aligned with an enterprise password management solution was almost automatically a shared responsibility. There are

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

Updated on November 14, 2022. Password cracking is using programs and tools to retrieve passwords stored in a computer system or sent via a network. Cracking a password may seem like a next-to-impossible task, but you’d be surprised how easy it can be. Read on to learn how password cracking works, the techniques used and