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We’re not going to dive in harp on you about the importance of strong passwords. But there is not a week goes by we don’t receive an email from one of our readers who is panicked because his/her Webmail account was hacked.
Truth be known, no hacker is going to bother with an unknown person’s [...]
As more and more of our personal information is being pushed to the cloud, it’s absolutely essential that you re-evaluate your passwords soon. Most people think that the cloud is not secure and the’re partially right. But it’s not because the cloud is not secure, it’s because people insist on using weak passwords and then [...]
Apple comes out with the iPod and Microsoft comes out with their ill-fated (and now discontinued) Zune Mp3 player. Apple comes out with the iPhone and Microsoft comes out with the ill-fated (and now discontinued) Kin phone. Years ago, we were telling you to make and use strong passwords, now Microsoft is doing the same [...]
We really wish this would be the last pass for us reminding you how important using strong passwords for all your online accounts is. We really wish this was the last pass for us reminding you never to use the same password twice for anything. We really wish that this was the last pass for [...]
With all the talk of “the cloud” and of privacy violations and “hackers”, we often put the burden and the blame on Web sites when something goes wrong – like when Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or Gmail accounts get “hacked”. We hate words that are so ambiguous. You may as well substitute “gremlin” or boogeyman for [...]
Since we’ve discussed the cloud and its pervasiveness (and it’s still in its infancy really) many times in this newsletter; we want to cover another subject which we’ve written about often in these pages: passwords.
We’ve received dozens of emails from people who are really afraid of what the cloud may bring in the way [...]
