New Chrome Extension Checks for Hacked Passwords Google has a new, free Password Checkup extension for Chrome that automatically checks your passwords to make sure they have not been hacked. The extension checks your passwords in real-time – as you use them – against a huge Google database of approximately four billion known hacked/stolen passwords. Google’s new Password… Read More »
Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con Tricking people out of sensitive information online is far too easy. (From “The Atlantic” ) In the classic 1973 heist movie The Sting, two con men—played by Robert Redford and Paul Newman—build a fictitious world in a Depression-era Chicago basement to defraud a corrupt banker. They make an offtrack-betting room, hire… Read More »
Easy Password Tips… Because Passwords Are Important! Don’t Skedaddle Away! Many of you are going to see the word password in the title and skedaddle away looking for a tip you can sink your teeth into. However, if you ever have your simple, easy-to-guess password stolen – you know the password you use for every site… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #768– Available Online NOTE: To all our Canadian Friends. We wished you a belated happy Canada Day. We stand corrected. Instead of a belated Happy Canada Day we wish you a HAPPY CANADA DAY! Thanks to all of you who wrote and corrected me (TC). It was my mistake. Enjoy your holiday! If… Read More »
Yahoo + AOL + Verizon Equals Oath [Better read the new TOS] First, we’re not lawyers and don’t claim to be. We don’t know anymore about law than the next average Joe. But we have been a around a long time and we’ve learned to tell the difference between the elevator and the shaft. Yahoo has long been (seemingly)… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #765– Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #765 , was sent to all subscribers on Friday, June 8, 2018 at approximately 10:25 AM, Eastern daylight… Read More »