Computerworld Phishers Harvest Facebook Passwords For Profit Identity thieves that hit Facebook last week with a new round of phishing attacks are harvesting passwords for profit. PCWorld Study: Secret Questions Don’t Safeguard Passwords The secret question you have to create for your free email account is usually an answer that is often easily guessable by [...]
ABC News Facebook Fights Phising Attacks Most of us trust our Facebook friends, don´t we? And do we really think twice before clicking on links they send us? We should, especially considering Facebook has recently issued a security alert warning of potential phishing attacks.Trust your friends, but be cautious of links. IT Security IT Security [...]
ZDNet How Can Internet Security Be Stepped Up? Passwords and usernames are not in themselves an non-secure way of protecting sensitive info, but can be used in an non-secure way. Can the same eventually be said for the up and coming solution of Biometrics? The Auburn Villager New Face of Internet Stalking Is Local Having [...]
Computer Act!ve Children Hack Friend’s And Family’s Online Accounts Children hacking into and impersonating friend’s online accounts? Facebook trends that could unknowingly put your passwords at risk? This is an interesting look at how the new generation perceive online identity. Government Technology Phishing For Passwords You may think you know everything about password protection, but [...]
Las Vegas Sun In Cases of ID Theft, Numbers Do Lie According to Federal Trade Commission statistics, Nevada has the nation’s third-worst identity theft problem. Or does it? Identity theft is often a crime that goes unreported, making the number of victims rise even further. CNET Are Passwords Our Best Security Option? There are many [...]
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 [...]
Passpack recently gave users the option of signing in with their OpenID, Google or Windows Live account. Now you can use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and Facebook with Passpack. Keep in mind that if you’re not a Passpack user yet, you can sign up for an account using any of the above. And if you are [...]
Passpack has just published a Facebook Fanpage! Yay! Passpack’s blog has incorporated ‘Behind the Scenes’ and ‘Passpack Lounge’ but Facebook is where we will really have some fun. Passpack’s RSS is incoporated in the fanpage so you don’t have to miss out on any posts. We will also be keeping you up-to-date on upcoming events [...]
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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