GadgetComa – The state into which a gadget geek falls after acquiring a new techno-toy. Days seem to go by while he or she fiddles with said gadget and raves to others about how groundbreaking it is.
My favorite password manager gets even better. Check out the new features designed to help you keep your passwords secure. Introducing the all new Watchtower – it is absolutely gorgeous, and appears to be rather timely! Twitter asked their 330 million users to change their password yesterday due to a security snafu, putting privacy and security at the forefront of...
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Oh the joy of being online – more than 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked, celebrities getting their photos stolen after falling victim to email schemes, login information for 167 million LinkedIn accounts was stolen – the list goes on and on. Even if you follow my advice for creating secure passwords, there’s not much you can do when a site you...
Yes, you read that correctly. Creating and using secure passwords can actually be simple. With an understanding of how to make a password harder to crack through brute force (i.e., multiple, repeated attempts at guessing) and a password manager, you can greatly enhance the security of your passwords. tl;dr – Longer passwords + a good password manager = simple security.
Logging In With a Touch or a Phrase Anything but a Password – NYTimes.com. A quote from this article that has me worried: “Computer scientists in Brooklyn are training their iPads to recognize their owners by the touch of their fingers as they make a caressing gesture.” A caressing gesture? Sure, I love my iPad, but caressing? Good way to...
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