More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists
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Firefox’s password manager is probably just as good.
“Probably”? It’s the best! I never have to worry about memorizing 500 different passwords cause Firefox automatically syncs my passwords across every device I use without me even having to think about it.
eh, it doesn’t work for credentials of phone apps, bitwarden does and you can access those passwords if you log in into the web version if you are on an unknown pc.
It takes a few taps, but firefox’s password service appears when you click the autofill option for me.
On apps besides Firefox? I mean apps like your bank app or ubereats, etc.
Not sure about the banking apps but a few other apps have worked for me. Like the Lemmy ones for instance.
Then it should for all, cool. I still prefer bitwarden becaue I can store credit card info, generic secure notes, and I’m able to access it from anywhere, useful when logging in into my email from my mother’s PC and such, but it’s cool that it is integrated with the keyboard engine too.
I’d be worried about losing access to the entirety of your passwords if Google up and decides that one day your account is suspended. There’s been a few reports historically where someone gets their Gmail account suspended for some mistaken reason and all their associated access gets pulled (e.g. from drive, sheets, etc)
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You are saying that bitwarden suspended your account?
I got a Google account that was shut down after some spammer started using that email as the sender address (sometimes called a Joe job). I somehow got in contact with an employee (friend of a friend) that checked on the account and verified it wasn’t my fault and reopened it, but a week later it got closed automatically again, with no easy way to reopen it.
The backscatter was hundreds of emails per day, so the email part of the account was useless anyway, but I used it for other things.
So it can happen at no fault on your own, and impossible to do anything about.
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Hopefully you were of legal age to accept the Terms of Service, otherwise it might’ve been an irregular account all this time.
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If it was, and you haven’t accepted the ToS as of legal age, then you might want to make a new one.
Google is getting ready to purge inactive accounts starting next year, and it wouldn’t be the first time when a service purged irregular accounts many years after the fact, so… better safe than sorry.
…so far.
For those that don’t mind self-hosting, which can be as easy as just running syncthing or resilio sync on your NAS, I can really recommend keepass.
Me with interest, but no technical knowledge reading your comment:
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I didn’t understand any of those words
edit - nevermind I can’t even format a comment, let alone self host a… Thingie. What the other guy said.
A NAS is a home storage server, like Synology that you can use to store images, videos and backups, etc on so you can access them from any computer or device in your home. With a couple of clicks, they can easily run applications like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which are kinda like Dropbox, except you don’t have to pay Dropbox, you’ll just be storing the files on your own service.
If that’s too much to handle, you can still just store your Keepass file in Dropbox, so that it’s available on all your devices. But in the end you’ll still be storing your personal data on someone else’s harddisk.
So in short, is at easy as using a prefab service? No, you’ll have to invest some time, money, and knowledge yourself. But in the end, your data is not gathered in silo together with countless other users, which makes it a lot less attractive for hackers to try and steal it.
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Self hosting is less appealing for criminals, though. Especially if the protocol is “vanilla” like ssh.
When you hack LastPass you know what you’ll find, millions of passwords. When you hack a dude ssh you have one chance over one million that there is one dude password wallet.
It doesn’t make financial sense to hack self hosting (unless it’s specific server software)
There are plenty of use cases for going after self hosters. Bot farms are basically made up of “regular” computers infected with malware.
While you’re at it and have access to tens of thousands computers, also grabbing their passwords is just a nice bonus.
If anything, it doesn’t make financial sense not to do it. You’re right in that self hosters themselves are not the target per se. but they are targeted for other reasons, and that’s where it ends up becoming problematic.
You need to aumatize any operation… It’s not conceivable that an human look at every device for stuff to steal. It would be even more expensive.
Generally all these bit malware do is 1) using a vulnerability to replicate themselves 2) mine crypto or other kind of crap. Sometimes (1) involves also stealing ssh keys but it’s not the goal, it the mean.
Self hosting password/code/photos/whatever niches you are almost guaranteed that no human will look at hit because the amount of IoT/Routers/etc with nothing valuable beyond themselves generally composes the majority of these compromised bots
This is just the economic incentive
Oh yes, because automating a search for csv and json files to search for mail addresses and passwords can’t be done by malware. It must be a human.
Common. This happens on massive scale, wether you like it or not.
https://securityboulevard.com/2023/06/the-alarming-reality-the-extent-of-credentials-stolen-by-botnets/amp/
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/452972-password-cracker-software-creates-crypto-stealing-botnets.html/amp
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-stolen-credentials-million-compromised-accounts.amp
It’s software, everything can be done. Even if username and passwords are not kept in plaintext as you suggest (and likely nobody would do)
Problem is that the number of people that self host password repositories is so little that it makes no financial sense. And so for this reason your “massive scale” is an hyperbole because there isn’t a massive scale of people that self host password repositories
Botnets that stole from local password repositories makes more sense because there are more people that use password managers of sort.
Humans looking are flexible enough to look at all possible long tail cases like this… but not going to happen except for high profile targets.
All in all what i am saying is that i don’t see clear evidence that self hosting is more dangerous (in practice) than centralized hosting
PS: pro tip If you link references, make sure to read the references you link… The second one has nothing to do with password stealing, it was about a password cracker that was a trojan horse for a botnet. Yes, it fits the search “botnet password” but it doesn’t sustain your point
As a non-Google user, Lemmy is only “Chrome bad”. They’re “Android is the only way”