CEO World Magazine The Complete Guide to Internet Security and Privacy Issues! 51 fundamental useful links for anyone interested in privacy online and what it means, protecting yourself from identity theft and various other informative channels to security on the web. Certainly is a complete guide. Market Watch 7 Steps to Worry Free Online Shopping [...]
IT Security The 25 Most Common Mistakes In Email Security A well thought out list of common myths and mistakes of email users. Especially interesting are points: 12, 13, 14, 21, and of course 22 and 23! Yes 22 and 23 talk about passwords and encyrption. Market Watch Walling Data’s Top Ten Safety Tips For [...]
FoxNews Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian Email Scam An Oregon woman is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam. She says she wasn’t an easy mark. Great article on how online fraud can hit anyone. WashingtonPost A New Voice in Online Privacy President-elect Barack Obama has cited privacy as one of the [...]
Datamation Bruce Schneier: Securing Your PC and Your Privacy Bruce Schneier is a prolific writer on the subjects of cryptology, privacy and security. And this is a fantastic interview where he really clears up some common misconceptions and gets down to the raw facts of security on the web. Mashable Is Twitter Ranking Your Popularity [...]
Telegraph UK Internet Black Boxes To Record Email And Website Visit Every telephone call, email and internet visit made in the UK may soon be collected and stored before being sent off to a giant central database. Tradingmarkets.com E-mail Scams Move To Phones You may know what Phishing Scams are. But are you curious as [...]
This week’s privacy related news items are well worth the read, covering a pretty broad spectrum of issues. The most eye-catching topics were: Information Week Firefox Add-On Simulates Great Firewall Of China Aram Bartholl, Even Roth and Tobias Leingruber’s recent Firefox add-on has been getting lots of buzz, since it lets people get a glimpse [...]
We’ve been throwing around the idea of a weekly post dedicated to informative finds on the web that have to do with privacy and security. And in light of yesterday’s great guest post by Bart Mroz for Identity Awareness Day, Passpack decided that now is a better time than any to start – This Week [...]
In Passpack support we sometimes get the same question over and over, so I figured I’d write a post about some known common issues. But I AM Logged In! Do you ever get this error message when you try to Autologin to a website? “To use the Passpack It! button, you must connect to this [...]
We previously mentioned our thoughts on Passpack and OpenID. The feedback was almost unanimous. You as users all seemed to be opposed to the idea of having a Passpack whitelitst for OpenID providers. Just for clarity’s sake, the idea only came into our heads because we were trying to keep consistent with level of security [...]
We have linked to a few of the common threats OpenID poses and will talk more about them in the future. Now, I’d like to address one in particular, which has inspired this post and brought up a very important issue regarding Passpack’s support of OpenID. Let’s have a look at the problem… Here’s What [...]
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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