Find Out if Your Email Address Has Been Breached Earlier this month (February 2021) over three billion user credentials were posted online as part of a data breach mega-compilation known as COMB. COMB, or the “Compilation of Many Breaches,” is not a new breach, it’s a hacker super database that combines stolen user data from… Read More »
Chrome and Edge to Beef-up Their Password Managers We have always been advocates of password managers like LastPass and Roboform. Alas, we know most of you still don’t use one. But for all of you who don’t use a password manager, some good news is coming your way: Both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are beefing… Read More »
How to Export Passwords from Google Chrome Many of you who don’t use a separate password manager use the de facto password manager in Chrome. And that’s OK because Chrome requires you to enter your Windows PIN or password before you can see the passwords. If you’ve ever wanted a list of your passwords for safekeeping… Read More »
How to Easily Find Your Wireless Password in Windows 10 It’s been a while since we covered recovering wireless network passwords, but since Christmas was last week, a lot of folks got a new computer, a new tablet, a smartphone, an Amazon Fire, a smart thermostat, a Roku player, a smart TV, or other internet-connected devices,… Read More »
The 200 Worst Passwords of 2020 We’ve been promoting strong passwords for a long time. We’ve promoted free password managers like LastPass. We’ve written numerous articles such as this one and this one, hoping to help you find easy ways of creating and remembering strong passwords. But we know that not everyone takes strong passwords seriously.… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly – Issue #892 – Available Online Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly, Issue #892, was sent to all our subscribers on Friday, November 13, 2020, at approximately 8:35 AM, Eastern Time (USA). If you didn’t receive our latest newsletter, it’s because your ISP didn’t deliver it… or it’s in your spam folder. We suggest, if you… Read More »