passwords
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How To Create Secure Passwords That Aren’t Impossible To Type
2How do you create a strong password? Easy: You mash your keyboard for a few seconds until you have a 50-character hunk of gibberish, then you copy and paste that into a password manager so you don’t have to actually remember what it is.
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Moving Your Passwords From Google Chrome To A Dedicated App Just Got A Lot Easier
If you’ve been using Google Chrome to store all of your logins and passwords, that’s great – a lot better than scribbling your passwords on sticky notes and attaching them to your desktop monitor or laptop. Third-party password managers are even better (cross-platform, in many cases), and a new Chrome setting now makes it easy…
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Use Fake Answers To Online Security Questions
Image credit: Christiaan Colen/Flickr The sign up processes for online banking accounts, new email addresses, or health insurance apps all involve a few extra security measures to protect the precious data inside those accounts. Unfortunately, the security questions they make you answer aren’t exactly secure. Your mother’s maiden name just won’t cut it anymore and,…
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Massive Password Trove Published
If you had any doubts that criminals were in investing in technology, then this will allay those concerns. By aggregating the data from over 250 separate breaches, cybercriminals have created an easily accessed and usable treasure trove with 1.4 billion clear text log-in credentials according to security researchers 4iQ. If you’re in the habit of…