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|  | | PC World - 15 Feb (PC World)Bitwarden is a beloved password manager for good reason—it’s feature-rich and its paid subscriptions cost bare pennies ($10/yr). The service is also proactive about continually strengthening security for its users.
Here’s the latest security update for cloud-hosted personal accounts: Starting in February, if you don’t have two-factor authentication enabled, a confirmation code will be sent to your email address when logging in from unrecognized devices. It must be entered to approve the sign-in attempt.
In its announcement of the new feature, Bitwarden says a unrecognized device is any previously not used to log in, one where the Bitwarden app was uninstalled or one that had its Bitwarden login cookies wiped. The service will treat all of these scenarios as new devices, forcing this verification step.
On the whole, this change is good—if someone guesses your password, your vault is protected against intrusion. But one big danger exists with this new layer of security, and Bitwarden specifically calls it out.
Bitwarden’s example screenshot of the upcoming verification check when logging in on a new (or “new”) device.
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Should you store your email credentials in your Bitwarden account, you could accidentally lock yourself out of both your email and your password manager, with little to no recourse. How? If you’re accessing your Bitwarden account to log into your email address and it sends the verification code to your email address, you have no way of accessing either site.
This potential doomsday scenario isn’t limited to Bitwarden, either—there are other password managers that insert an additional confirmation step for unrecognized devices.
Luckily, there’s an easy solution. You can simply memorize your email password separately from that of your password manager.
Alternatively, for Bitwarden specifically, this new security procedure can be bypassed if you log into your account with a passkey or enable 2FA. It is not applicable to users who login via SSO, an API key, or self-host their vault.
If you haven’t already started using passkeys or 2FA, you really should—whether or not you use Bitwarden. This style of limited verification check isn’t as strong as either of those two protections, and not all password managers send them out. At minimum, if you have a weak password securing your vault, upgrade it ASAP. A password manager can try to help save us from ourselves, but it’s never a guarantee.
Further reading: The best password managers we’ve tested Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | Ars Technica - 15 Feb (Ars Technica)Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers. Read...Newslink ©2025 to Ars Technica |  |
|  | | RadioNZ - 15 Feb (RadioNZ) From Monday, Featherston and Greytown will have to comply with level 2 water restrictions which will mean a ban on sprinklers and irrigation systems for residential households. Read...Newslink ©2025 to RadioNZ |  |
|  | | Stuff.co.nz - 15 Feb (Stuff.co.nz) The Cook Islands has not disclosed the contents of the China deal with New Zealand prior to signing. Read...Newslink ©2025 to Stuff.co.nz |  |
|  | | Stuff.co.nz - 15 Feb (Stuff.co.nz) A 32-year-old man will appear in court on Wednesday. Read...Newslink ©2025 to Stuff.co.nz |  |
|  | | RadioNZ - 15 Feb (RadioNZ) Aggressive funds can be more volatile, but should deliver more returns over time. Read...Newslink ©2025 to RadioNZ |  |
|  | | PC World - 15 Feb (PC World)I’ve probably spent more time combing through Amazon listings than most people, if only because I have to do it for Amazon’s various Prime Day sales events. The Amazon shopping experience has become progressively more frustrating over the years, as they fill up with promoted and sponsored listings crowding out the stuff I’m actually looking for. But it’s about to get worse.
Customers will be given an option to “Shop brand sites directly” (i.e., leave Amazon.com to shop somewhere else). If you’re subscribed to Amazon Prime, you might get faster shipping and other perks. A full post on Amazon’s promotional page goes more in-depth.
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It’s hardly unprecedented for Amazon to advertise stuff that I’m not actually looking for. And despite its public perception as primarily an online retailer, Amazon is really a tech company now. While $55 billion in direct sales are the biggest chunk of its business, they’re not even half of its total income — services sold to third-party sellers bring in almost $35 billion, web and cloud systems bring in $25 billion, and advertising earns $11.8 billion, according to Statista.
Having said that, it’s hard not to feel like Amazon is muddying up its product search even more than it already has. If I’m shopping on Amazon, it’s because I want to buy something on Amazon, to take advantage of the Prime subscription I already pay for (which somehow doesn’t include ad-free viewing for video) and the associated credit card points.
Seeing ads for non-Amazon stores while I’m shopping on Amazon is yet another example of “enshittification” in action. That’s when a public-facing service or product is constantly tweaked to squeeze more money and attention out of us without any measurable improvements to the service or product in question. It sure doesn’t enamor me to Amazon, especially now that “Prime shipping” no longer guarantees the uber-fast delivery times it was once known for.
If this sounds like entitled grousing, well, I guess it is. But even as someone whose entire profession is dependent upon online advertising, I think I won’t shock anyone when I say that online advertising often sucks.
Non-Amazon ads are now in beta on Amazon’s mobile apps, sure to come to a desktop browser near you soon. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | Stuff.co.nz - 15 Feb (Stuff.co.nz) Principals say uneaten lunches are piling up with “more leftovers than ever before”. Read...Newslink ©2025 to Stuff.co.nz |  |
|  | | Stuff.co.nz - 15 Feb (Stuff.co.nz) Frazer Palamo hasn’t been seen since walking out of school on Friday morning. Read...Newslink ©2025 to Stuff.co.nz |  |
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