Have you been asked to reset your password when you try to log into Dropbox.com? You aren’t alone, and this is all as expected. If you haven’t changed your Dropbox password in a while, you (like me) will be asked to change when you log into the website. Back in July, Dropbox announced that they [...]
Dropbox has just released a new, optional, two-step authentication process. 1Password 3 (Mac and iOS) and 1Password for Windows use Dropbox for synchronizing your 1Password data across systems and platforms. So anything that has to do with Dropbox security is of interest to us and to 1Password users. The bottom line is that I recommend [...]
The Sophos NakedSecurity blog has some excellent password security advice to kick off your Monday morning: “Before being interviewed on TV, wipe passwords off whiteboard“. Here’s a shot from TVP, a Polish television channel, that prompted this timely refresher: Note that “hasło” is the Polish word for ‘password’. I guess a scrap of paper under your keyboard is [...]
Dan Goodin at Ars Technica published an excellent article reviewing password security and explaining why people need randomly generated and unique passwords for every site and service. That is a message you hear from us frequently. One thing that is clear from Goodin’s review is that many of the underlying issues are more complicated than most people [...]
Mat Honan, a 1Password user and writer for Wired, did everything right. He had strong, unique passwords everywhere. Yet he was the victim of an “epic hack”, and had to put a great deal of effort into getting his digital life back. A very brief account of this Homer-worthy hack is that someone talking to [...]
By now most people will have heard that email addresses, hashed passwords, and some other data has been stolen from Blizzard’s Battle.net servers, and people are advised to change their passwords there. As unfortunate as this story is, it serves as yet another good reminder of why we very strongly encourage people to not reuse [...]
Not so long ago, I wrote about a case where attackers were taking passwords that were leaked from one site to go after users on another. In that case, the target was Best Buy. Today’s case hits a bit closer to home for 1Password users, as Dropbox accounts are being attacked using passwords stolen from non-Dropbox [...]
John the Ripper, the pre-eminent password cracking tool, is getting ready to take on 1Password. Is 1Password ready? Yes! We have been ready for a long time, but you need to do your part by having a good Master Password. We’ve written many times about how 1Password defends against automated password guessing programs (password crackers). [...]
We’ve written about password reuse before, and we’ll be writing about it again. Password reuse—using the same password for multiple sites or services—is both rampant and dangerous. There is real evidence that people are getting robbed because they are reusing their passwords. Thieves systematically exploit reused password to pay for retail items or hijack accounts [...]
Yes, the stories are true, and no, this isn’t The Onion. People are, once again, displaying their affinity for tweeting photos of things that should never be tweeted. Let’s set the scene and put you in the shoes of a number of today’s (possibly young, possibly naïve) Twitter users: you get your first debit card, [...]