LastPass : The last password you'll have to remember: LastPass Security Notification

http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notification.html Online password keeping service LastPass.com reports that it is possible that they were 0wned. (how nice!) In the same time, PastPass seems to be doing the right things: they had a monitoring in place, so they have detected an anomaly in traffic. As soon as the anomaly was detected, they have notified their users and proceeded with further measures.

Security Incident — Blog — WordPress.com [ wordpress.com got 0wned]

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/ this is just great … at least they notified their users in a timely manner. Change your passwd if you have wordpress.com account.

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars/ awesome story about how security firm HBGary was hacked, or what happens if you do not follow simple security best practices.

Default Password List

http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html default passwords list for various hardware devices

md5 reverse lookup

http://md5.crysm.net/ useful for simple things; some cool links