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You are here: Home / Tech / Hacking / LastPass Sentry Monitors Your Accounts for Security Breaches

LastPass Sentry Monitors Your Accounts for Security Breaches

September 18, 2012 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

LastPass Sentry is a new feature of LastPass that will automatically monitor your accounts against known compromised site and inform you if your email appears in a list of breached accounts.

LastPass Sentry Security Checks your passwords

LastPass Sentry now offered for free

It seems there’s been an un-ending number of high-profile breaches lately; among them are the likes of LinkedIn, Last.fm, and the Apple UDIDs. LastPass is now offering a new feature called LastPass Sentry that is available to free and Premium users, as well as corporate Enterprise users. LastPass Sentry will scan PwnedLists’s comprehensive (and growing) database of 24 million publicly leaked usernames and passwords to perform daily “checks” against LastPass account email addresses to look for positive matches. If a match is found an email notification is sent to the LastPass user notifying them of the domain that was breached and the potential risk. Users can then run the LastPass Security Challenge to verify if the password for the breached site is used elsewhere.

In the future they plan to integrate the LastPass Sentry service INTO the LastPass security challenge to check not only the email address that you use for your LastPass account itself, but perform a local check of the entirety of your stored data. Cool stuff… check out this blog post for the details!

Introducing LastPass Sentry

If you signup (it’s one of the only apps I consistently recommend to people!) for LastPass go through here and I’ll get a referral bonus. I’m not recommending it just for referrals though, you can always simply go to LastPass.com

Filed Under: Hacking, Privacy, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: icon, Lookout , mobile, security

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Frank Woodman says

    September 18, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    Again LastPass has added a very valuable feature to an already feature packed program. LastPass has so many good security options that it’s hard to find fault with it at all. But it’s always good to see more features coming out all the time as with security it’s either keep up and innovate or fall behind. LassPass keeps showing that it has no plans on falling behind.

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