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LastPass Password Service Hacked
Trailrunner7 writes "LastPass, a popular Web based password management firm, advised its customers to change the password they use to access the service following what the company said are signs that its network may have been compromised."
KeePass is ok, but most of us who are not into shemales prefer Passsword Safe.
yes - I know that if the pass phrases for any of them are
week, the whole thing doesn't make sense.
My pass phrase is month which is four times as strong.
My climbing gym web site was hacked recently and used for a phishing scam and general fun for the script kiddies. The annoying part is that, even with absolutely nothing critical to lose (other than site up-time due to our host taking the site down), there is still a lot of work to do just to make sure they didn't leave another back door. I know this because...I missed the backdoor. They dropped a nice PHP script on the server that gave them unrestricted access.
Anyway, the point is that just thinking one has been breached is shitload of work for someone, and probably a good reason to beat the bad publicity of a full breach with a press release that at first sounds worse than it well may be.
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I use LastPass because I want access to my passwords at work and Dropbox is blocked. LastPass does the same thing as KeePass+Dropbox, and I can access it from anywhere.
And now, apparently, so can everybody else! That is convenient.
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