Thursday 12 September 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on So, who invented computer passwords?
A bit of trivia today but also an obituary for a man who, given you are probably reading this on an electronic device, has had more influence on your life than you would expect, given that you have probably not … Continue reading
Saturday 7 July 2018
by Wulf
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The problem with changing the login password on your computer is that it takes a while to not key in the old one when you first sit down. Even a longer password is largely typed on automatic on systems that … Continue reading
Tuesday 21 February 2017
by Wulf
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For sometime now, I have been using LastPass as a tool to help me remember a lot of my passwords. I can have different passwords for each website I log into, each one long, complex and random, and I don’t … Continue reading
Tuesday 26 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Top of the Password Pops
Is your password still 123456? If so, you’ve got a large amount of company, sharing the slot for the most common password which remains unchanged from last year, according to a recently released summary from SplashID. The long-term favourite password … Continue reading
Friday 20 November 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Making LastPass a bit more secure
I attended an information security meeting today and was surprised to find that many of the colleagues there didn’t rate LastPass as a password manager tool. There wasn’t time to find out the fuller details but I did some reading … Continue reading
Thursday 12 November 2015
by Wulf
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I am still waiting for the results of the Digital Forensics course I was studying earlier this year but I started my third Open University module a couple of weeks ago: M811 Information Security. This one makes use of the … Continue reading
Monday 19 October 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Fingers of Fudge
As you might expect, I’ve got a collection of reasonably strong passwords. Typically they are around 20 characters including upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. That should take millions of years to crack using current computing power … Continue reading