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Avoiding the clipboard with 1Password and Lollipop
by Jeffrey Goldberg Nov 22, 2014
Copy & Paste clipboards (or “pasteboards” as they are called on Mac and iOS) can be dangerous places for secrets if you have malicious software running on your device. On most operating systems – mobile and desktop alike – most running applications can read from the system clipboard. When you copy a secret to the system clipboard, a malicious …
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SECURITY
Viewing Drupal from the 1Password Watchtower
by Jeffrey Goldberg Nov 1, 2014
When a large number of websites are discovered to have been vulnerable, as is the case with websites running recent versions of Drupal, people need clear and unambiguous advice that you can act on. And so, our clear and unambiguous advice is: If you have a username and password on a site which has been using Drupal for its content management, you …
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SECURITY
Shellshock is bad, unique passwords are good
by Jeffrey Goldberg Sep 30, 2014
A new security bug, commonly known as Shellshock (Officially CVE-2014-6271, is bad. It is fair to say that a large number of servers (particularly web servers) were vulnerable to serious attack for some time. It is likely that many still are, and we are unlikely to learn about most of them.
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SECURITY
Watch what you type: 1Password’s defenses against keystroke loggers
by Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 21, 2014
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: 1Password and Knox cannot provide complete protection against a compromised operating system. There is a saying (for which I cannot find a source), “Once an attacker has broken into your computer [and obtained root privileges], it is no longer your computer.” So in principle, there is nothing that …
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IOS
Filling with your approval: On 1Password’s App Extension and iOS 8 security
by Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 14, 2014
iOS 8 has an incredible feature coming called App Extensions, and we’re thrilled to say we have a 1Password extension ready for developers to use right in their apps! In apps that gain support for our extension, you will no longer have to copy and paste passwords from 1Password. Yes, it really is a game changer, and you can see it in action for …
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SECURITY
1Password is a very safe basket
by Jeffrey Goldberg Jul 16, 2014
When you use a password manager, you are putting a great deal of valuable and sensitive information in one place. The expression, putting all your eggs in one basket is apt. When you put all your very valuable eggs in one basket, it is absolutely fit and proper to ask how secure that basket is.
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