Firesheep is a Firefox extension that monitors traffic on a network and records session information that is stored in a Web browser’s cookie. It was introduced last month at Toorcon (a hacker conference in San Diego CA” by Eric Butler of “codebutler” to demonstrate the danger of sites changing their sessions back and forth between [...]
Posts Tagged ‘passwords’
Firesheep
Posted: November 8, 2010 in SecurityTags: codebutler, Firesheep, password, passwords, Security, Security Now, Steve Gibson, TWiT
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Gina On Lastpass
Posted: September 25, 2010 in SecurityTags: LastPass, password, password manager, passwords, Security, Software, TWiT
Programmer extraordinaire and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and Leo Laporte talk about Lastpass the incredible cloud based password manger.
Create Secure Passwords
Posted: July 17, 2010 in SecurityTags: LastPass, password, passwords, Security, Security Now, Steve Gibson
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.
The Lastpast You’ll Ever Need
Posted: July 13, 2010 in SecurityTags: LastPass, password, password manager, passwords, Security, Security Now, TWiT
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.
LastPass
Posted: March 9, 2010 in SecurityTags: LastPass, password, passwords, Security, tip, web, web 2.0, web apps
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 [...]
It is confirmed! What I said about WPA was correct. If you use a very strong password when using WPA-TKIP you are safe from everyone but the most determined hacker. They would have to really want to get in your network pretty bad to set in front of your house for days and may weeks [...]
