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Credit card numbers checksums and hashes, the story of a scamming attempt
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Jeffrey Goldberg
As LĂvia and I were out walking Molly and Patty on Monday evening, I received a telephone call from an unknown number.
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Dropbox follows through on password resets
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Have you been asked to reset your password when you try to log into Dropbox.com? You aren’t alone, and this is all as expected. If you haven’t changed your Dropbox password in a while, you (like me) will be asked to change when you log into the website.
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1Password users should wait a bit before trying Dropbox’s two-step verification
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Dropbox has just released a new, optional, two-step authentication process. 1Password 3 (Mac and iOS) and 1Password for Windows use Dropbox for synchronizing your 1Password data across systems and platforms. So anything that has to do with Dropbox security is of interest to us and to 1Password users.
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Guess what? A Post-It under your keyboard is not the worst place to keep a password
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Jeffrey Goldberg
The Sophos NakedSecurity blog has some excellent password security advice to kick off your Monday morning: “Before being interviewed on TV, wipe passwords off whiteboard“. Here’s a shot from TVP, a Polish television channel, that prompted this timely refresher:
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On Ars Technica’s most excellent comprehensive review of password security
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Dan Goodin at Ars Technica published an excellent article reviewing password security and explaining why people need randomly generated and unique passwords for every site and service. That is a message you hear from us frequently.
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More than just one password: Lessons from an epic hack
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Mat Honan, a 1Password user and writer for Wired, did everything right. He had strong, unique passwords everywhere. Yet he was the victim of an “epic hack”, and had to put a great deal of effort into getting his digital life back.
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