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Social password manager PasswordBox offers one million free-for-life memberships

425,000 beta users later, social password manager PasswordBox is going live. And it’s offering free-for-life memberships to the first million users who sign up.

PasswordBox remembers and automatically enters all your passwords across all your platforms.

It signs you into websites, logs you into apps, and allows you to securely share your [...]

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Are we ready for FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) ?

The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices as well as the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.

The FIDO Alliance plans to change the nature of authentication by developing specifications that define an [...]

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Strong passwords to protect yourself from hackers

Rarely does a week go by without news of another hacking incident, whether it’s Chinese hackers accused of breaking in to The New York Times’ computer systems or Burger King finding its Twitter account taken over by pranksters.

Security threats aren’t new and have long been part of online life. But the increased [...]

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How to find happiness in a world of password madness

n early August, Wired reporter Mat Honan had his most precious passwords hacked via a complex series of social engineering exploits. The breach made headlines because it exposed security flaws in Apple and Amazon customer service policies; but let’s not forget that the Honan saga capped a long summer full of server invasions [...]

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Database security assessment vital to password protection

Password management best practices are typically aimed at the user, but businesses play a large and extremely important role in protecting user account data, and that includes employing database security fundamentals to lockdown passwords and email addresses, according to security experts.

That doesn’t mean adding salt to a strong hashing algorithm, according to [...]

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Worst Passwords for Employees to Use and How to Fix Them

If your employees think it’s clever to use “password” as their password, it’s time for them to make a change for privacy sake. Switching the “o” to a zero to make it “passw0rd”? Not much better. Both are on the list of the 25 most common passwords used on the Internet, according to [...]

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