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Passpack Nominated for TechCrunch Europas

It’s a proud moment. Passpack has been nominated to the TechCrunch Europe award. So show your favorite password manager a little love.

Techcrunch UK
The Europas: Best Web Application Or Service    

Vote for Passpack

Wondering why we didn’t mention this last week? Well, maybe… we… um, didn’t notice right away that we’d been nominated [yikes!]. Apparently we’ve been working too hard on the upcoming autologin improvements. Ok, so you go vote and we’ll keep coding.

This Week In Privacy: July 4, 2009

PC Advisor
Michael Jackson X-file Scam Steals Passwords
It’s no surprise that the death of the King of Pop has brought about a lot of media, but be careful while clicking on the latest links of Michael Jackson stories. Some of them may be password scams.
Mail Online
So why is the U.S. so eager to lock up the [...]

This Week In Privacy June 27, 2009

financialadvice.co.uk
Who Should Reimburse ID Theft Victims?
One in five victims of identity theft are not reimbursed for their losses but who really pays the price of getting your personal information compromised.
delaware online
To Curb Identity Theft, 10 Tons of Documents Shredded
There are many ways to protect yourself against identity theft but here is an example of the [...]

Two Bugs with One Stone

Thanks to Passpack user  Tim Robertson (aka FunkJedi) two bug fixes were rolled out yesterday: a misplaced Chrome back button alert, and the IE6 non-secure items alert.
Chrome Back Button Alert
As you may know, you should not use your browser’s back button with Passpack, because at best you’ll get logged out and have to log [...]

Coming Soon: Auto-login 2.0

Passpack’s auto-login was introduced so far back into time that it’s hard to remember when it wasn’t there (just think – the first version didn’t even have 1 click login!). Now it’s time for an overhaul – and that’s what we’re working on right now.
The login and training failure rate when we first began was [...]

This Week In Privacy: June 20, 2009

Missoulian.com
Bozeman Demands Internet Passwords

Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are asking job seekers for the user names and even passwords to Internet social networking or Web groups they belong to. Is this policy going way too far?
Thestar.com
EBay Enthusiast Shaken By Online Fraud, Tardy Response From Bank

Protecting your passwords is vital especially when they [...]

Email Hiccups Solved

Passpack keeps all non-critical applications like the blog, help center and mail server on totally separate servers from the application. Yesterday this auxiliary server had DNS issues which resulted in difficulties posting comments, contacting the help center and a backlog of emails.
The application itself was not effected as it is sandboxed separately, however the numerous [...]

This Week In Privacy: June 6, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald
Happy National Change Your Password Day
June 5th was declared the National Change Your Password Day and for good reason – who really wants their personal accounts broken into?
Tech Republic
10 Ways to Avoid IT Security Breaches
Michael Kassner offers some solid guidelines and tips on how to avoid security breaches and you guessed it, [...]

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