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 [...]
The Olympian Watch Out For ID Theft While Online If you have some gift money burning a hole in your pocket and want to grab online post-Christmas bargains, beware of ID thieves hoping to make you the next victim. ZDNet 5 Security Precautions To Take For The Holiday Break The following last-minute precautions should probably [...]
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 [...]
We were just contacted by a research group formed by Ben Adida at Harvard University, Adam Barth at Berkeley University and Collin Jackson at Stanford University. They alerted us of a security issue concerning the Passpack It! button (aka 1Click Login bookmarklet). We fixed it immediately. How the issue was discovered — The three researchers [...]
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 [...]
Happy September everyone! Last week we threw around some ideas on which OpenID providers to accept and more importantly which not to accept. There was a ton of feedback (thank you!) and in the end we decided that instead of a “whitelist”, the Sign In page will display icons of OpenID providers which work well [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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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