Passpack’s recent announcement of soon becoming an OpenID supporter sparked quite a few questions. One of those questions in particular requires a post to be answered – “How will Passpack support OpenID and at the same time prevent phishing?” Passpack has always dedicated itself to ensuring full user security and privacy and it always will. [...]
If you’ve downloaded Passpack Desktop and like it, we’re glad to hear that. If you haven’t, here are a few tips and tricks on how to make your Passpack Desktop more than just a password manager. 1. Back Up And Read Passpack has always let you make backup of your passwords. Just go to Tools [...]
When I first heard about Marco Barulli’s idea for a “Zero-Knowledge Web Application” I was happy. I felt I had found someone who thought the same way I do, with which we could collaborate, and I told him so. But when I read the first definition, I was less impressed. I tried to open a [...]
About a month ago, we posted some Thoughts on Biometric Passwords. Yesterday, Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog unveiled how vulnerable fingerprints are… in photographs. It hit me that in the age of digital photography, a properly motivated photographer could probably find fingerprints on all kinds of surfaces, and capture them as expertly as Dale did. I [...]
Multiple choice Pop Quiz: Have you ever stumbled across your partner’s phone and read the text messages? a. Yes, why wouldn’t I? b. No, that’s a complete invasion of privacy! c. I may have been tempted. . Have you ever read your partner’s email? a. Every day. b. How would I? He keeps his passwords [...]
We just discovered a great little game called Anti-Phishing Phil (thanks to this blogpost). The game was created by CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). And it has done a pretty good job of turning internet security training into a game. The game works like this: you are a fish named Phil who lives [...]
Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s interior minister and adamant supporter of biometric authentication, seems to be waiting for the day when biometric technology will be available on a large scale and passwords will be a thing of the past. But recently Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest hacker group caused a fuss when a recent issue of Die [...]
Seems everyone has been talking about password meters lately. And word is spreading that a password like ‘thomas123’ just might not fit the bill anymore.
If you think – “No one cares about stealing a password from lil’ol me” – you’re right.
Passpack is built to make sure that not even we can read your passwords. But – how can that be? How does it work? Folks are often frightened away by reading uninvited technical explanations. They underestimate themselves, hear cryptography and host-proof hosting and think – “oh no, that’s too hard! run – run!” We have [...]
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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