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Google is making sharing passwords with your family members a lot easier

Google is making sharing passwords with your family members a lot easier

vinnstock/Getty Images While password-sharing crackdowns are all the rage these days, there are still times you need to share login info with someone in your house. Maybe it’s to check your child’s homework app or to make a payment — there are plenty of cases when you need to get this sensitive info to a family member. Google announced today that users will soon be able to share login details with their connected family group using the Password Manager app.  Also: The best password… Source link

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Google Accounts Hacked Without Need for Passwords

Google Accounts Hacked Without Need for Passwords

The important feature of the zero-day solution is “session persistence”, which means a hacker’s session using a target Google account will continue to remain valid in the face of a password change. This means the true owner of the Google account won’t be able to kick them out with a password reset. But further, it also allows any threat actor exploiting it to “generate valid cookies in the event of a session disruption”, which CloudSEK says enhances the attacker’s ability to… Source link

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Netflix’s plan to charge people for sharing passwords is already a mess before it’s even begun, report suggests

Netflix’s plan to charge people for sharing passwords is already a mess before it’s even begun, report suggests

A scene from Netflix’s “Stranger Things” season three.Netflix Netflix says it will charge users who let people outside their households use their account. It has been trialing this new policy in Costa Rica, Chile, and Peru. Peruvian Netflix users told Rest of World they haven’t seen any enforcement, and the policy has been confusing. Netflix has been trialing its upcoming crackdown on password-sharing in three Latin American countries — but with limited success so far, Rest of World reports. Source link

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Apple, Google, Microsoft announce plans to drop passwords

Apple, Google, Microsoft announce plans to drop passwords

(NewsNation) — Apple, Google and Microsoft announced plans on Thursday to eliminate passwords and replace them with other secure sign-in methods. The announcement came just before World Password Day, which is recognized annually on the first Thursday of May. It highlights the use of safe password habits, but some major tech companies say password-only authentication is of the biggest security problems on the web. “Fundamentally, what we’re doing is letting you use your… Source link

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Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company’s Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users’ Facebook login credentials. In a bid to win users’ trust and lower their guard, the apps provided fully functioning services for photo editing and framing, exercise and training, horoscopes,… Source link

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