Today we’ve released two long awaited features: the ability to include tags along with the entry sharing and the ability to apply tags in bulk edit mode. As a background: when we first introduced tags, we had considered them as a personal way to organize your data. Technically the Tags data was encrypted separately from [...]
A few weeks ago LastPass had a serious breach of data. I don’t like to talk about the competitors, but this unlucky event generated a lot of articles, concern and fear. It also caused an increase in emails from Passpack users who are seriously concerned about their security and want to understand if what has happened to [...]
Time after time, there are users that ask for the possibility to share “masked passwords” with other people. What is a “masked password”? It is something that you share with another user in a way that allows him to use it (for example for autologin) without actually seeing the password itself. When I respond that [...]
Passpack keeps backup copies of the last successful saves for each and every entry in your account. This ensures that should an entry ever get corrupted, the system will ask you if you’d like to recover the last useful backup. A glitch in the Internet connection during saving seems to be the only cause identified so [...]
Wired Weak Password Brings ‘Happiness’ To Twitter Hacker An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday’s hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama’s, and the official feed for Fox News. TechNewsWorld Will 2009 Be the Year of Multiple Digital Identities? Just days after Twitter was hacked, a [...]
CNET A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To a Birthday Greeting An interesting take on privacy and revealing a piece of information that most people wouldn’t think twice about when signing up for a new online account. WOAI The 500 Most Common Passwords 1 in 9 people use at least one password from this [...]
The Olympian Watch Out For ID Theft While Online If you have some gift money burning a hole in your pocket and want to grab online post-Christmas bargains, beware of ID thieves hoping to make you the next victim. ZDNet 5 Security Precautions To Take For The Holiday Break The following last-minute precautions should probably [...]
Lifehacker Lessons Learned From A Hacked Gmail Account Just as the title says – a few first hand lessons on what to do if you find out your email has been broken into, how to keep your email safe and tips on net security in general. The Register Browsers Fail Password Protection Test Chapin Information [...]
Ars Technica CDT to Obama: Advent of “the Cloud” Makes Privacy Laws Dated The Center for Democracy and Technology issued a transition outlining measures president-elect Barack Obama should take to restore privacy safeguards… and to promote open discourse and innovation online. Computer Finance The value of Your Stolen Identity: About $120 The going rate for [...]
In order to understand how shared host-proof hosting works, we need a quick overview of host-proof hosting – what it is and why it has gained such standing in online privacy matters. The Need For Privacy Online Whenever you send anything over the internet, your data is exposed. The sites you visit, emails you send, [...]
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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