Tag archive for ‘passwords’
Tip of the Week: Write Your Passwords Down on a Post-It Note
Yes, you read that title correctly. Having recently written about widespread password insecurity, I now advise all readers to write their passwords down on a Post-It Note. But I haven’t lost my sanity, nor sold out. There’s more to the story.
Particularly, the line of reasoning follows a great blog post by Sean over at F-Secure. [...]
Hoping to crack a password? Try looking under the keyboard.
Keith Ferrell has a decent blog post at InformationWeek concerning one of the oldest problems in the IT security world: password management. The post is focused particularly on the age-old problem of the Post-It Note. An alarming percentage of people, including IT workers, write their passwords down in clear, plain text, right on a sticky [...]
Tip of the Week: Don’t Keep All Your Eggs (Passwords) In One Basket
This week’s Tip centers once again on password security. Think it doesn’t matter? Consider the rash of recent reports such as the Verizon 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report that once again show how password security is apparently lost even on professions whose job it is to ensure it!
Talk to ten people on the street, and [...]
Tip of the Week: Forget Your Passwords
Most of today’s web browsers offer the ability to “remember” passwords and usernames for websites. This is very convenient.
It’s also a horrible idea, at least without a good plan for response if the computer is stolen. Another laptop is stolen every 12 seconds. Imagine writing your name and address on your keychain, which has your [...]
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