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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, June 16

  Civil liberties faction walks out on facial recognition talks

• Online password locker LastPass hacked

  LastPass users will be prompted to change their master passwords after the online password locker company reported that its network was breached on Friday.

• LastPass discloses now-fixed vulnerabilities ahead of security conference

  Popular password manager LastPass said it fixed two vulnerabilities that were found last year. The disclosure comes just ahead of a security conference where a research paper describing the problems is due to be presented.

• How to make two-factor authentication less of a pain

  You probably know by now that you should never use the same password in more than one place, and that each of your passwords should be strong enough to resist an automated attack. Perhaps you use iCloud Keychain, or a third-party password manager such as 1Password or LastPass to generate random passwords, store them, and fill them in automatically. But all that may not be enough if a site suffers a security breach that reveals its users passwords to an attacker--sadly, a frequent occurrence.