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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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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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Jeffrey Goldberg
By now most people will have heard that email addresses, hashed passwords, and some other data has been stolen from Blizzard’s Battle.net servers, and people are advised to change their passwords there. As unfortunate as this story is, it serves as yet another good reminder of why we very strongly encourage people to not reuse the same password on …
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Jeffrey Goldberg
John the Ripper, the pre-eminent password cracking tool, is getting ready to take on 1Password. Is 1Password ready? Yes! We have been ready for a long time, but you need to do your part by having a good Master Password.
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Not so long ago, I wrote about a case where attackers were taking passwords that were leaked from one site to go after users on another. In that case, the target was Best Buy. Today’s case hits a bit closer to home for 1Password users, as Dropbox accounts are being attacked using passwords stolen from non-Dropbox sites. Just as no passwords were …
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Jeffrey Goldberg
We’ve written about password reuse before, and we’ll be writing about it again. Password reuse—using the same password for multiple sites or services—is both rampant and dangerous. There is real evidence that people are getting robbed because they are reusing their passwords. Thieves systematically exploit reused password to pay for retail items or …
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