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LastPass Fined 2 Million by UK Regulators for Data Breaches

12 Dec 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Security architecture and practices are important to every vendor, but the expectations and consequences are especially high for Cybersecurity products. When a password or credential vendor has multiple breaches, not only do customers abandon them b...

Passwords Remain Ridiculously Insecure

19 Nov 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Nothing surprising here, just a little depressing. Passwords are often ridiculously insecure. Cognitive limitations in people can manifest as vulnerabilities in digital systems which are easily exploitable. We must address such cognitive weaknesses...

Biometrics Got Intrinsic Problems

2 Sep 2025 3 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury

There has been much hype around biometrics. Biometrics is a fruit of practical research studies in STEM—science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The practical research in biometrics revealed that biometrics-based recognition is probabil...

Wipe Sensitive Data: How to Make Deleted Files Unrecoverable

2 Nov 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Crypto Safety First

When you delete a file in Windows, the file is not deleted. And many people do not seem to know about this. When you delete a file in Windows, only the entry that tells the computer where the actual file is saved will be deleted from the master file...

How Often Do People Reuse Passwords: Are You at Risk?

23 Sep 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Crypto Safety First

Based on an online security survey conducted by Google among individuals aged 16 to 50, these are the results in password usage that have emerged: 52% of participants, declared to reusing the same password for multiple accounts, although not for al...

How to Use Invisible Ink to Add an Additional Layer of protection to Your Passwords Backups

28 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Crypto Safety First

Nowadays the average internet user has tens of accounts. And, ideally, each account has a strong and unique password to avoid a single point of failure in case of a hack or a data breach. But, while having strong and unique passwords for each account...

Protect your Password Backup - How to Convert Text to Hexadecimal using Excel

23 Jul 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Crypto Safety First

Passwords, PINs, security codes, recovery codes, seed phrases, and private keys are critical pieces of information that cannot fall into the wrong hands. If you have many accounts and you have decided to store all that information by writing it on pa...

Protect your Password Backup - How to Manually Convert Text to Hexadecimal

22 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

Passwords, PINs, security codes, recovery codes, seed phrases, and private keys are critical pieces of information that cannot fall into the wrong hands. If you have many accounts and you have decided to store all that information by writing it on pa...

Password Reset Exposes Everyone's Account

30 Jun 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

Ever wonder what kinds of things happen when good-intentioned people try to manage cybersecurity? Well, in this case, a High School in Illinois responded to a system error by resetting every student’s password and then communicating it to all the pa...

What is Going On with LastPass?

3 Mar 2023 1 minute read 8 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The cyber attacks on LastPass continue to be more invasive and damaging to its customers. Numerous security failures and poor leadership decisions have undermined this cybersecurity company’s reputation and sent its customers scrambling to protect t...