{"id":6768,"date":"2017-04-15T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:52:34","slug":"linked-security-update-for-the-lastpass-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/linked-security-update-for-the-lastpass-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Security Update for the LastPass Extension&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3160,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blog.lastpass.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/security-update-for-the-lastpass-extension.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lastpass.com\/2017\/03\/security-update-for-the-lastpass-extension.html\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via LastPass<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On Saturday, March 25th, security researcher Tavis Ormandy from Google\u2019s Project Zero reported a security finding related to the LastPass browser extensions. In the last 24 hours, we\u2019ve released an update which we believe fixes the reported vulnerability in all browsers and have verified this with Tavis himself.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was a LastPass user for years and then they were hacked. I spent a week changing passwords and fully divesting of the LastPass ecosystem and it took a year before I had the courage to try out an alternative provider. LastPass lost my business and now they\u2019ve been hacked again. When a password manager is hacked, that should be 1-strike you\u2019re out. No one should store their data with LastPass ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via LastPass: On Saturday, March 25th, security researcher Tavis Ormandy from Google\u2019s Project Zero reported a security finding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-15T17:52:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"aac8bc8c-6127-40bc-bb52-aad9e47abda7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-15T17:52:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aqsi8jGEnQLy7UqrZ5Hq9pw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1La","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5789,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/linked-the-sat-has-been-hacked\/","url_meta":{"origin":6768,"position":0},"title":"Linked: The SAT Has Been Hacked","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gawker: The College Board\u2019s reaction to this development has been befuddling. In 2013, Reuters reported, the company knowingly administered an SAT test in China with materials that had already leaked onto Chinese message boards, where its questions were extensively discussed and answered. Stronger security measures, meanwhile, seem to have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6195,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/linked-facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack\/","url_meta":{"origin":6768,"position":1},"title":"Linked: \u201cFacebook admits to blocking Wikileaks links in DNC email\u00a0hack\u201d","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via NY Post: Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee. In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of \u201ccensorship\u201d and gave its followers an online workaround, saying \u201ctry using https:\/\/archive.is.\u201d Living in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5934,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/linked-how-i-learned-to-love-snapchat\/","url_meta":{"origin":6768,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;How I Learned to Love Snapchat&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via NYTimes Magazine: In 2012, I calculated that I sent about 7,000 texts a month; now, thanks to the creeping unwieldiness of phones and the misfirings of autocorrect, I can barely manage to peck out half a sentence before I become aggravated by the effort and give up. To combat\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5174,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/linked-the-xbox-one-is-garbage\/","url_meta":{"origin":6768,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Xbox One Is Garbage&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Deadspin: The first thing that happens after you hook up your Xbox One and turn it on is that you spend like an hour guiding it through updates and calibrations and logins and setups. Among the other things it required me to do was sign in with my Xbox\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4201,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/linked-liking-everything-on-facebook-is-incredibly-dangerous-no-surprise\/","url_meta":{"origin":6768,"position":4},"title":"Linked: Liking everything on Facebook is incredibly dangerous (no surprise)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Wired: By the next morning, the items in my News Feed had moved very, very far to the right. I\u2019m offered the chance to like the 2nd Amendment and some sort of anti-immigrant page. I like them both. I like Ted Cruz. I like Rick Perry. The Conservative Tribune\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6875,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/linked-bundles-of-bundles\/","url_meta":{"origin":6768,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Bundles of Bundles&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via 500ish: While you may have your \u201ctraditional television\u201d skinny bundle, you\u2019re still going to have to augment this with Netflix and Amazon and iTunes and Google Play. 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