Regardless of whether or not you're one of the "paranoid" people who doesn't want others snooping in their personal effects, your fingerprint, iris, face, or voice isn't your password, and you'd be wise not to treat it as such.
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Probably the best freemium password management service in the world just got better, or rather cheaper to use at its full potential across a multitude of devices. No more LastPass synchronization restrictions for $0 per month accounts, although the Premium tier is still a thing, mostly if you want to support the popular mobile and desktop security app.
You’re also getting some neat stuff like family sharing with up to five members, priority tech support, PC fingerprint identification, 1GB of encrypted file storage, and no ads at $1 a month, but it’s now perfectly acceptable to keep all your online passcodes under lock and key on an unlimited number of Android, iOS and Windows products sans paying a dime.
Previously, LastPass Free “subscribers” could merely access their precious web login data on one device of choice, be it mobile or desktop, but apparently, the “mission to help you simplify your online life, and make it a whole lot easier to achieve strong password security” has finally superseded the quest for profits.
“Too many of us are still struggling to build a strong security foundation, at work and at home”, says the Founder, VP and GM of the password management resource in a detailed blog post reminding us of the over 1 billion passwords “publicly leaked due to poor password practices” so far in 2016. Hopefully, this will drive the number way down in years to come.
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Yahoo has announced that “a state-sponsored actor” has gotten hold of a copy of US account details including password hashes, — machine-scrambled passwords that are sent and exclusively accepted by receiving servers — unencrypted and encrypted security questions and answers and vital specs like names, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. The data dates back to late 2014.As of this point, it seems that no unhashed passwords were obtained as well as payment or bank account information. Users are being notified and urged to be vigilant for suspicious ...
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The iPhone belonging to a confessed drug dealer in Brooklyn has been cracked into. But it wasn’t opened with the zero-day exploit that the FBI purchased supposedly from a gray hat hacker. Someone else just knew the passcode for the iPhone. Prosecutors in the case ...
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Privacy and security are two major ingredients in the cutthroat world of enterprise technology. BlackBerry’s been all about it, so has BlackPhone. Fingerprint scanners are here as a natural evolution of the curiosity in the field of mobile data protection. But whatever you do, if you end up in court for whatever reason and your ...
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This week as I’ve been going hands-on with the ultra-secure Blackphone, there’s one thing that’s really stuck out in my mind: passwords, and if there is such thing as a “perfect password”.We use passwords for a lot more than most think. Every day I wake up and check my email. Doing so requires that I enter a password. I head over to Pocketnow and login with another password to publish my daily article. I then share that article with various social media networks, each with a different password.When I check my phone ...
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Our lives are becoming more tightly integrated with online services every day. From email, calender, and to-do lists, to grades, banking, and bill payment, almost everything can be done via some web portal on some web server. To protect ourselves from identity theft we’re told we need to use passwords that are long, contain mixed-case lettering, numbers, and even symbols — in other words, we need passwords that are difficult for us to remember. Then, to make matters worse, we’re told that we need to use different passwords for each site so we minimize the potential impact ...