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Xmarks Acquired By LastPass

Mark — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:09:56 +0000

The great bookmarks synchronization plug-in Xmarks because of lack of funding was planning to close down has now been acquired by LastPass, the password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. This is terrific! LastPass is a great company and Xmarks is a great service. I’m currently use a”delicious ” plug-in to manage my bookmarks but now I may move to Xmarks!

Gina On Lastpass

Mark — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:40:19 +0000

Programmer extraordinaire and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and Leo Laporte talk about Lastpass the incredible cloud based password manger.

http://video.fastcompany.com/plugins/player.swf?v=a36aa96a78c7c&p=fc_social

You can see this and all of the “Work Smart“

You can find Gina and Leo on “This Week In Google” on the TWiT podcast network.

Create Secure Passwords

Mark — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:41:48 +0000

The longer your passwords are the harder they will be to crack. How long should they be and what sort of characters should you use? Steve Gibson on episode 256 of Security Now suggest ten characters. Both upper and lower case with numbers. This gives you 7.6×10 to the 17th power possible character combinations. You could also use twelve characters numbers and lower case alphabet (easier to type) to get a similar amount of randomness. Use Lastpass to generate and manage the passwords securely.

The Lastpast You’ll Ever Need

Mark — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:50:15 +0000

For the last six months I’ve been using Lastpass a password manager that is truely extraordinary. Lastpass is easy and safe. Lastpass is everywhere you are. It works on PCs, Macs, Linux and other operating system. It works with Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and nearly any other web-browser. Adroid phones, iPhones iOS, Blackberry and many other smartphones are supported with apps included with the premium service, cost $12 per year.

Some of Lastpass features are…

Automatically fill forms! See Demo
Synchronizes across browsers!
Store secure notes. See Demo
Easily Import existing passwords form many different sources.
Secure password generator! See Demo
Access from anywhere on any platform.
Save to USB key for easy secure access anywhere.

There are so many features I can’t list them all in this post. The best thing to do is check out their website for a full description or listen to this excerpt from Security Now with security expert Steve Gibson. Steve tells you about the features and the its terrific security.

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LastPass

Mark — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:30:01 +0000

I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is so easy that if you discovered one of my passwords it would be no problem to figure out the rest. An algorithm that you can do in your head must be more difficult and hopefully you have the gray matter to use it or you must try something else.

LastPass is the answer. LastPass generate pseudorandom passwords for you and store them on a secure website. Then LastPass can auto-fill passwords as you need them. It can even log you in automatically. It took me a while but I generated all new passwords for all of my logins, they are all different and they are saved securely on the LastPass site.