pcmag.com ID Theft Tops List of 2008 Consumer Complaints It’s no surprise, identity theft is consistent at placing number one in consumer complaint reports and 2008 is no exception. Here are a few statistics from the Federal Trade Commission. vnunet.com Poor Password Practice Putting Users At Risk Gartner research proves that internet users are using [...]
Daily Times Favourite Passwords: 1234 and password Passwords that show no imagination or distinctiveness are easy prey for information pirates, a new US study says. So don’t fall prey by making 1234 or password the gateway to your personal info. guardian.co.uk Obama Orders Review of Cyber Security Barack Obama has ordered a review of America’s [...]
fredericksburg.com Man Blames Bank Security For $328,540 in Online Theft “Somehow, someone was able to get the pass code to my account”. Unfortunately this is an all too common phrase but this time, it cost someone over $300,000! Daily Tech New Study Reveals Human Error Is Greatest Security Flaw So it seems numbers are going [...]
theage.com.au Suffering Password Fatigue Remembering things like password and PINs gets tiring and sometimes impossible. Here is a look at password fatigue and how to fight it. Weiner Zeitung You Think You Are Protected? – Better Think Twice! Take a look at the findings of the NCSA and McAfee online security research. Are people really [...]
The 73% of Americans who use the web may be interested in reading just what tech-savvy President-elect Obama has planned for the future of the cloud and how it pertains to an all time Passpack favorite – privacy on the web. Safeguarding Internet user’s right to privacy in Web 2.0 is not always top of [...]
Andrea Vascellari just posted this video of O’Reilly from the Web2.0 conference in Berlin last month. Prompted by our very own Donato, O’Reilly shared his thoughts on the need for privacy in a social web. O’Reilly’s states he’s in favor of privacy, but if I had to paraphrase, it sounds to me like he’s saying: [...]
Rome’s first Girl Geek Dinner less than one day away and we ladies are just about prepared. Here’s a look into our to do list: Girl Geek gadget Tara’s speech Dress/Hair What we’re working on now, can’t be finished without the help of our Girl Geeks themselves. You may not have been able to make [...]
Sarah Palin’s email security hack has recently been the topic of every news outlet and only brings to light the importance of password management. The password reset story has caught attention for more than obvious reasons and fingerpointing has become rampant, diverting the attention on Palin somewhat inappropriately. Speculation as to how her Yahoo account [...]
Ok, so yes, we’ve caught the Google Chrome fever here at Passpack HQ – it’s a beaut, and Passpack runs like a dream! I suppose that should come as no surprise, as Chrome is built for speed with Apple’s WebKit in the core (among others). We ran a browser encryption speed benchmark some time ago, [...]
It’s a classic suspense story – Man finds city job in computers. Man works there for 5 years. Man has a huge amount of data responsibility. Man is threatened to be fired. Man creates a password granting him exclusive access to the city IT system. This Story Is Actually True… Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer [...]
Since Yesterday, PayPal is not sending us confirmation notification of the payments. So the system is unable to update the status of the accounts. We could do this manually, but when PayPal will solve the issue, it will probably send all the notifications and this could create worse issues. So, we are waiting for a while. If nothing happens, we will fix the updates manually.
UPDATE, Jan. 29. The strategy worked because PayPal sent all the notification at one moment, and all the accounts have been upgraded correctly.
We completed the performance improvement of Passpack moving the static files on a new server. This improves also the general security because it is now much harder for an attacker to try to inject Javascript code.
Passpack has discontinued Google Gears support. It was used with slow browsers like Internet Explorer 6 or 7. If you use one of these browsers, probably your account will become really slow without Google Gears. We strongly suggest to upgrade to IE 9 or to a totally different browser like Chrome.
Follow-up to the last post, the billing system is completely functional again. Happy Tuesday!
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