If you are a player of popular computer games like StarCraft II, World of Warcraft or Diablo III, you’d be wise to change your battle.net password as well as for any accounts that used the same one. According to Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime, some of their servers have been compromised and breached by hackers. In a … More Battle.net breached by hackers!
While the ongoing floods of leaked account credentials from Formspring, LinkedIn et al. are potentially disastrous for the owners of those accounts, analysis of those data doesn’t only provide a way of seeing whether our own accounts are at risk. It also provides an incentive for us all to re-examine our own password (and passcode) selection … More Passwords: what 442773 leaked Yahoo! accounts can tell us
With the recent announcements of password breaches at LinkedIn, and warnings from Google about state-sponsored attacks on Gmail accounts, it seems like a good idea now to review some password security basics. In this blog post, we’re going to take a look at a rather low-tech solution to a decidedly high-tech problem: How to guard … More Guarding against password reset attacks with pen and paper
Acording to survey, the passwords situation in Ireland is a bit better than the global average Globally the most widespread passwords are still “123456” and “password” as well as other very simple ones. This seemed just too terrible to us, so we ordered another survey in Ireland, to see if the Irish are any smarter … More The Irish are using safer passwords than global average
We have published guidance material previously on passwords and passphrases, some are blogs and some are lengthier depending on your liking (link & link). Even still it is always good practice to reinforce sensible password techniques. For this blog, I plan on sharing an analogous self-ritual, and one that relies on a third party application … More Security Feature: No chocolates for my passwords please!
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