If you’re like most home computer users, you use the same 2 or 3 passwords for your various accounts and your passwords are easy to crack. As you keep reading news reports about hacked accounts and stolen identities, you think you should do something about your passwords, but you keep putting it off.
Like personal security, password management is something most people don’t think much about until after something bad happens. Unfortunately, the Internet is not secure. Just as you need to be “street wise” when venturing onto streets, you need to be “net wise” – especially with passwords – when venturing onto the Internet. Because, like it or not, your passwords are currently the main barrier between you and the bad guys.
Most password management advice seems designed to torture you as opposed to help you. For the average Joe with average security needs, password management advice needs to be simple and usable, not just secure. Luckily, there is a reasonably secure form of password management that is simple and usable. Here it is: Read More
32 Million Skyrock Passwords Stolen and What You Should Do About It
On May 21, 2010, Skyrock informed users of their social network and blogging platform to change passwords (mots de passe), because of an intrusion detected on May 19. Skyrock does not know what the intruder accomplished. If the password list was stolen, then the passwords of all 32 million users were compromised because they were stored as plaintext.
What should you do if you are a Skyrock user? What should you do if you are not a Skyrock user? Read More »