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Security: Password, Windows Breach, SH1mmer, and OSI

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 31, 2023

Wladimir Palant: Password strength explained

The conclusion of my blog posts on the LastPass breach and on Bitwarden’s design flaws is invariably: a strong master password is important. This is especially the case if you are a target somebody would throw considerable resources at. But everyone else might still get targeted due to flaws like password managers failing to keep everyone on current security settings.

There is lots of confusion about what constitutes a strong password however. How strong is my current password? Also, how strong is strong enough? These questions don’t have easy answers. I’ll try my best to explain however.

Parent firm of Indian defence contractor hit by Windows Alphv ransomware

The parent company of a private defence contractor in India has been compromised by the Windows Alphv ransomware (aka BlackCat), with the group releasing a number of documents on the dark web and claiming to have stolen 2TB of data.

Meet SH1mmer, the big bad Chromebook exploit no one is talking about

SH1MMER, a dangerous new ChromeOS exploit that was released on Friday the 13th, has flown under the radar for two weeks....

The ultimate list of reactions to the Cyber Resilience Act

The European Commission's proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) as drafted may harm Open Source, and perhaps all other non-industrial software. A list of most relevant responses.

Skype Linux App Gets Colour Options, Realtime AI Voice Translation [Ed: Joey from OMG!Microsoft!Canonical! is shilling Microsoft's proprietary spyware again.]

Skype (remember that?) continues to release new updates of its desktop apps, including on Linux. In this post I look at what's changed in the latest update.