We’ve been getting questions lately on how to add a 1Password button to Mobile Safari for iPhone and iPad. While I may have a little bit of bad news about that, I’m happy to say I have good news too. In fact, I think it’s great news about a really handy feature built right into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1Password for iPhone and iPad has some great tricks up its sleeve, including easy ways to let you peek at a password, a quick way to search, and even bumping Safari over in—or possibly out of—your dock. So let’s get started, shall we? The Basics Swipe to reveal password on iPad - 1Password for iPad behaves [...]
Today it was reported LinkedIn had a password breach. This is the most frustrating sort of security problem, because even if you’re using all the security available on the longest most complex password you can generate, that doesn’t help if someone else gets ahold of it. As more and more services are offered online, and [...]
Boy, it sure is easy to log into sites from 1Password or the 1Password browser extension; after all, that’s kind of the point. But what if you want that easy access from other apps, or a way to organize Logins related to a certain project with all the other stuff for that project? We’ve got [...]
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true. —Lewis Carroll “The Hunting of the Snark” In Part 1 of this series I discussed how your 1Password data [...]
(UPDATE: This is no longer a prerelease feature, you can use it right now!) If you’re like many enterprising Mac users, you probably use a utility like Alfred, a great productivity booster shot that lets you open apps, move files, search specific websites, control iTunes, and much more with just a few keyboard strokes. Thanks to [...]
Know what’s fast? Typing in a URL, then hitting Command-\ to automatically fill your 1Password Login and randomized password to get on with what you’re doing. Know what’s even faster? Clicking a single bookmark to have all that work done for you. Nerd blogger Brett Kelly, productive podcast Back to Work, TUAW, and Lifehacker have recently mentioned [...]
Apple released its first big OS X update of 2012 this week, and it’s pretty big. It’s easier than ever to keep your computer up-to-date these days, but it never hurts to review good habits, especially when it comes to keeping your computer and data secure. By far, the largest number of compromises of home [...]