Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am a big user of OneNote. I find it a great tool for connecting my Apple devices to my Microsoft world, for always having that note from a meeting 12 months ago to hand and to find that place of interest I saw on TV whilst on holiday, etc., …
If you trust someone with your passwords, their security needs to be very good – the popular online password bank LastPass has had some security problems recently and I have made my suggestions for an alternative way to store your passwords. Here is an opinion piece from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
OK the files are encrypted and supposedly will take forever to crack – using today’s technology. But the real issue here is that LastPass has taken all this time to work out that the hackers did get password files – something that LastPass has previously denied. That denial had reassured …
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Then you should be aware of this – they have suffered a follow up cyber security incident, using information from an incident in August, that breached their security again: Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach (bleepingcomputer.com) An investigation has revealed no customer encrypted passwords were compromised. I …
They shouldn’t be but you never know: Top 200 Most Common Password List 2021 The infographic above will put you on the right track. My preference where possible is to go passwordless:
