Department of Homeland Security Recommends Password Managers
…This is big. According to an article published by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a subset of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, password managers are not simply useful but are in fact necessary in the internet age (you can download the article here). We’ve ...
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New Report Says 90% of User-Generated Passwords Are Hackable
Are your passwords safe? Bad news. Almost certainly not. According to some troubling new data released Tuesday by Deloitte, password security will be a primary concern for all connected users in 2013. The global consulting firm predicts that over 90%—yes, you read that right, 90%—of passwo ...
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Three New Year’s Resolutions Anyone Can (And Should) Keep
Happy New Year, Keepees! Welcome to the future. January should be a month of fresh starts and optimism, but sometimes making resolutions can feel like more of a burden than anything else. The pressure to be better can take all the fun out of the New Year. Luckily, there’s one area of your li ...
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Keeping A Bright Outlook In 2013
As 2012 winds to a close, it’s easy to focus on the doom-and-gloom side of recent events in cyber security. From malware-ridden apps to individual hacks on personal information to large-scale cyber attacks from organizations like Anonymous, you might not want to ever take that new tablet out of ...
Continue ReadingThe Truth About Cybercrime Today
December is Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness month. Amidst all the bells-a-ringing and people singing that also come around this time of year, it can be easy to ignore the more sober reality of this important topic. Are You Aware? A great place to start on the “awareness” side of a ...
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Shopping Online This Holiday?
It’s that time of year again! Holiday shopping time. If you’ve ever bought anything online, you know that credit card information, banking passwords and PayPal login data are like little digital children: they can be hard to keep track of, they need protection, and they’re each special i ...
Continue ReadingA Day Without Internet
As of today, internet in Syria is reported at least partially restored, according to tech blog CloudFlare. The blackout began on Thursday, Novemeber 29, with a sudden shutdown of all traffic from Syria to the rest of the internet. In addition, some cellphone connections were reported shut off. ...
Continue ReadingHundreds of Thousands of Private University Records Fall Prey to Hacking
At least 50 universities from around the world were hacked recently. About 120,000 records of names, user names, passwords, phone numbers and addresses of students and faculty were prey. Harvard, Cornell, Stanford and Princeton were four universities that were included in the security br ...
Continue ReadingUse Keeper To Protect You and Your Smartphone
Imagine everything on your Smartphone wiped clean in a matter of seconds? Unless your Smartphone was using Keeper’s Self-Destruct function (and your information was backed up to Keeper’s Cloud), the thought of your data vanishing is downright terrifying. But unfortunately, another ne ...
Continue ReadingFinish 2012 Off Right With Keeper
If you’ve noticed by reading our blog entries, this year was marked with security breaches. LinkedIn, Yahoo, eHarmony, LastFM and many other sites all fell victim to hacking. User information was posted online for anyone to see, leaving customers feeling helpless and vulnerable. A sec ...
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