{"id":173728,"date":"2016-07-27T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173728"},"modified":"2016-07-27T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:39:36","slug":"lastpass-accounts-can-be-completely-compromised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/173728-lastpass-accounts-can-be-completely-compromised.html","title":{"rendered":"LastPass accounts can be &#8220;completely compromised&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious LastPass zero-day vulnerability has been found, which can compromise user accounts when they visit a malicious website.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability \u201callows attackers complete access to user accounts in which thousands of passwords are stored\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/07\/27\/zero_day_hole_can_pwn_millions_of_lastpass_users_who_visit_a_site\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Register reported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google employee and white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered the security flaw, which he reported to LastPass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre people really using this LastPass thing? I took a quick look and can see a bunch of obvious critical problems,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taviso\/status\/758074702589853696\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>said Ormandy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ormandy, LastPass is working on the \u201ccomplete remote compromise\u201d following his report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on LastPass<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/152211-lastpass-vulnerable-to-simple-phishing-attack.html\"><strong>LastPass vulnerable to simple phishing attack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/129394-lastpass-hacked-you-need-to-change-your-master-password.html\">LastPass hacked \u2013 you need to change your master password<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious LastPass zero-day vulnerability has been found, which can compromise user accounts when they visit a malicious website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,31054,38286],"class_list":["post-173728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-lastpass","tag-tavis-ormandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173746,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173728\/revisions\/173746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}