Friday, July 27, 2018

Password Managers 1 : Scammers 0

from here

Some scammers have apparently taken to using peoples passwords found in past breaches in order to make their scam more convincing - see Brian Krebs story about it

Obviously, if you never knew your password in the first place, the code they send you purporting to be your password won't actually mean anything to you, won't be familiar, and will not make their incredible story seem any more credible. As if there weren't enough reasons to use password managers, now they help prevent a particular kind of social engineering.