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 [...]
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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