You are sick of remembering hundreds of passwords and changing them every few months. Passkeys may be the user-friendly solution that finally replaces passwords.
I have written about passwords a bunch of times before, mostly arguing in favour of password managers and against rules regarding password complexity and periodic password change. An increasingly growing group…
The use of password managers is gaining traction as people realise the intractability of storing unique long passwords in memory. There are some challenges related to password managers that you…
My blog has been slightly inactive on account of my travels. Here is a little Christmas gift. This article contains points that I have distilled from a presentation that I…
21 December 2016
21 December 2016
Security
backup, browsing, cybersecurity, password, patch, security, update
There was news very recently about an online storage provider named Carbonite being “breached” through a password reuse attack. What might that be? It is just as it sounds like:…
26 June 2016
26 June 2016
Security
attack, cybersecurity, password, password manager, reuse, security
I have advocated password managers in a few previous posts. Here are a few considerations when you go about picking one for your own use: How are your passwords stored?…
US retailer Target was infamously hacked in 2013, causing the credit card records of tens of millions of customers to be stolen. Target had its systems assessed and came up with some…
You may be familiar with the standard script that your IT gives you about password complexity: it must have 8 characters or more, at least one small letter, one capital,…