Daily Times Favourite Passwords: 1234 and password Passwords that show no imagination or distinctiveness are easy prey for information pirates, a new US study says. So don’t fall prey by making 1234 or password the gateway to your personal info. guardian.co.uk Obama Orders Review of Cyber Security Barack Obama has ordered a review of America’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday (Nov. 5) we received a bunch of emails about problems with the Buy Now button when trying to upgrade their accounts to Passpack Pro. It seems that when users clicked on the button, they weren’t able to make a purchase. What Happened Before releasing Pro to the public, we ran all of our own [...]
Passpack’s recent Secure Messaging release lets you send (encrypted) PINS, links, login names, notes, passwords to people in your Ring of Trust. I know what you are thinking – why not automate it? We just did! Say hello to sending entries as attachments. Send a Complete Passpack Entry Now you can send a copy of [...]
Online Identity is a topic close to my heart. Passwords may be directly related to authentication — but Passpack’s relationship with Online Identity runs deeper than that. Let me share with you our ultimate vision for Passpack: in our personal lives, we all have public and private spheres. The latter is completely missing in our [...]
Passpack plans on contributing to the spread of OpenID by becoming a consumer! By the end of the summer you will be able to use your OpenID to login to your Passpack account. You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth. OpenID In A Nutshell OpenID is an open source authentication system which allows websites [...]
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 [...]
It’s a classic suspense story – Man finds city job in computers. Man works there for 5 years. Man has a huge amount of data responsibility. Man is threatened to be fired. Man creates a password granting him exclusive access to the city IT system. This Story Is Actually True… Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer [...]
The average person has quite a bit to memorize just to get through a normal day: ATM PINs, voice mail access codes, coupon codes, bicycle lock combinations, student/work ID numbers, phone numbers, sometimes even a PIN just to turn your phone on… You get the idea. But what do people sacrifice just to lighten the [...]
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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