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Reset Your Lost Password In OS X Redux

7:30AM Adam Pash | It’s not a great place to find yourself, but if you ever lose or forget your password for OS X, you’re not out of luck. Weblog AppleDoes details how to quickly and easily reset your password. More »
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Change Your iPhone’s Root Password After Jailbreaking It

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | From the files of the Worth Mentioning Again Dept.: If you’re jailbreaking your iPhone for whatever reason, be sure to change the root access password once you do. Besides hacker ransom attempts, it’s just good security sense. More »
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LastPass Adds Auto-Fill Password Management To Google Chrome

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google Chrome (on Windows): Password saving and management webapp LastPass offers a single space to drop your web site passwords and quickly use them on any browser—now including Chrome, through an extension available to development channel users. More »
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Custom Chromium Build Brings RoboForm to Chrome

1:05AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: RoboForm, one of our readers’ favorite password managers, is only officially available as an add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Unless you grab a custom Chromium build with a RoboForm adaptor built in, crafted by the RoboForm team itself. More »
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Choose Good Security Questions And Better Answers

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | A few security-conscious web sites allows users to write their own security questions, and web developers are occasionally asked to provide a few questions for their sites. Lifehacker reader James provides some perspective on what really makes a question secure. More »
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Enhance Your Wi-Fi Network Security

1:00PM Angus Kidman | Wireless networks free you up to use your laptop wherever you want at home, but they can represent a major security risk if you don’t set them up properly. Here’s some easy but often-neglected ways to enhance the security of your home (or office) Wi-Fi network. More »
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How To Recover Your Firefox Master Password

4:30AM Adam Pash | If you’re using Firefox’s built-in password management, you should also be using its master password feature to protect your saved passwords from prying eyes. But what happens if you lose your master password? More »
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Set A Password On Your Outlook File

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Don’t want co-workers snooping on your Outlook mail? Setting a system password to lock your entire machine remains the best tactic, but for added security you can also set a password on the Outlook file itself. More »
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Synchronise Web Passwords With Dropbox And RoboForm

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: RoboForm, one of our readers’ five favourite password managers, does a handy job of plugging passwords and form data into web sites. File synchronising tool Dropbox makes RoboForm even more convenient and automatically up to date. More »
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Weave Now Syncs Firefox Preferences, Auto-Logins

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.5: Weave, Mozilla’s add-on to synchronise bookmarks, passwords, and now preferences and automatic logins across Firefox browsers, updated to a 0.4 beta, just in time for the release of 3.5—which could happen tomorrow, by the way. More »