time to tape over your mic/web cam

[to v or not to v]

Researchers have found an AI-driven attack that can steal passwords with up to 95% accuracy by listening to what you type on your keyboard.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/14/ai-can-now-steal-your-passwords-with-95-accuracy-19332007/
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[stinkwheel]

Which is why you should use a secure keyring. Then it can only listen to the password that unlocks your keyring, which is no good to them unless they are using your computer.

I don't understand why secure sites stopped just asking for certain specific letters from your password, it seemed to me a very good way of defeating keylogger attacks, it would defeat this one too because you never actually type in the complete password. Maybe there's a good reason for it though?

The highly demanding features of passwords must be very exploitable too via this new and keylogger type attacks because they just need to look for something that is 8-10 letters long and contains at least one of a capital, lower case, special character and a number. Which is something you'd almost never type into a keyboard except as a password.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Islander]

Multifactor authentication sorts all of those password attacks out in a painless way. An authenticator app and away you go.

Passwords are on their way out anyway.

[Easy-X]

I always recommend locking down your main email account with extreme prejudice. Everything else tends to hang off it so it's the main point of failure with regards to hacking targets.
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[MCN]

I usebthebsame password for everything. That way I feel secure that I won't forget it.

QWeRTY.12345
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