They’re blaming customers for not having good cybersecurity practices instead of themselves for not having good cybersecurity practices.

  • doppelgangmember@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Uhh yeah you can…

    Mandatory 2FA with phone and password retry count. If it’s targeted using breach data of email/passwords then the 2FA should still stop the majority…

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      1 year ago

      Shouldn’t service providers be hashing the plaintext passwords that show up in dark web leaks to see if matching users reused those passwords?

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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t really be of any use if they’re doing things right and salt their hashes

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        1 year ago

        They typically do, but that doesn’t stop hackers from posting the plaintext.

        The real solution is to never store plaintext and to use MFA.