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Jeffrey Goldberg
Apple released its first big OS X update of 2012 this week, and it’s pretty big. It’s easier than ever to keep your computer up-to-date these days, but it never hurts to review good habits, especially when it comes to keeping your computer and data secure.
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Jeffrey Goldberg
We just released 1Password 3.8.11, and this seemingly minor update packs some important security changes under the hood. I’d love to share those with you all.
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Jeffrey Goldberg
We have some bad news and good news today about the state of Mac security. The bad news is that there’s a new malware variant out for the Mac, a trojan called DevilRobberV3, that tries to collect various pieces of data, including your 1Password data file. The good news is that your 1Password data is very well encrypted, but we still want to take …
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Jeffrey Goldberg
The details are still vague, but it appears that the encrypted passwords of 35 million Steam users have been captured by bad guys. Note that there were two breaches. One was of Steam forums, the other is of their main user database. I am just discussing the later here as it involves many more users.
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor’s note: This blog post was written in 2011. You can now protect your 1Password account with two-factor authentication, using an app like Authy or a security key. Teams can also use Duo’s authentication app as an extra layer of protection for employee accounts.
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Jeffrey Goldberg
It has recently been noted over at ZDNET that if your Facebook password is PattyAndMolly, Facebook will also accept pATTYaNDmOLLY as a valid password. This may initially seems look something that weakens users’ security. However it actually is a good thing.
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