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Hashing fast and slow: GPUs and 1Password
by Jeffrey Goldberg Dec 5, 2012
The net is atwitter with discussion of Jeremi Gosney’s specially crafted machine with 25 GPUs that can test hundreds of billions of passwords per second using hashcat, a password cracking system. Password crackers, like hashcat, look at the cryptographic hashes of user passwords and repeatedly make guesses to try to find a password that works. …
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Don’t trust a password management system you design yourself!
by Jeffrey Goldberg Nov 8, 2012
Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times penned an article on “How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away“. The article has a typical mixture of good advice that could often be better, along with some implied advice that I actually consider very poor.
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Credit card numbers checksums and hashes, the story of a scamming attempt
by Jeffrey Goldberg Oct 18, 2012
As Lívia 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
by Jeffrey Goldberg Sep 6, 2012
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
by Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 27, 2012
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
by Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 27, 2012
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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