Hate Passwords? It’s Up To You To Fix Them
A couple of days ago the New York Times broke a story describing how Russian hackers amassed more than billion internet passwords, along with 500 million email address, from over Read more...
Category: Passwords
Telepathwords: This tool from Microsoft tells you how bad your passwords are by guessing the next letter
Choosing an effective password that’s easy to remember and type, as well as hard to guess for would-be fraudsters, is a perennial problem. But it’s one that the folks at Read more...
Top 20 Hitachi ID Password Manager Support Questions
Check the following video from Hitachi ID explaining the Top 20 Hitachi ID Password Manager Support Questions Read more...
Why Self-Service Password Reset Software Makes Dollars and Sense
According to the Help Desk Institute, the average cost incurred today to service a single call is about $24. By contrast, a self-service query costs about $1. When you consider Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...