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29 Mar 2023 3 minute read 8 comments I_g_o_r
In the current epoch, an average user has over 100 online accounts and is required by employers, businesses, organizations and governments to have strong and different passwords for these accounts, which should be also periodically changed by the u...
14 Jan 2023 2 minute read 3 comments Debesh Choudhury
What is a password, and why is it essential for all Internet users? I am sure that most Internet users know well what a password is and why it is vital in cyberspace. Still, I will write a short text about it! Passwords are still a widely used and...
5 Jan 2023 1 minute read 9 comments I_g_o_r
Recent hacks of PayPal, Norton, LastPass (see [1-4]) forced many users to look for passwords not stored in any place such as generated on demand passwords, dynamical passwords, stateless passwords, etc. These passwords are not stored in any place, th...
28 Dec 2022 4 minute read 1 comment Manyonge
LastPass is a password manager that allows users to generate, store, and manage their passwords. It has been around for a while and was once a convenient and easy-to-use tool with a browser extension and mobile app. However, recently the company anno...
21 Sep 2022 3 minute read 5 comments Debesh Choudhury
Passwords are indispensable in today's networked world. In this networked world of the Internet, passwords are indispensable. Passwords are needed to login into any online accounts, such as your webmail, banks, credit cards, centralized cryptocurrenc...
1 May 2022 1 minute read 5 comments CodyMac50
This morning, I woke up and checked my emails as usual...and saw something odd from one of my regular visited sites. Coins had been exchanged, and I surely didn't do it. So, I went to the site, and sure enough, 3 coins had been exchanged for Bitcoin,...
16 Oct 2020 7 minute read 7 comments MintDice.com
CryptoSmarts 4 MintDice is proud to bring you the fourth part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing government...
30 Sep 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Luca B
The previous article in this series has described why passwords which were fully compliant with the NIST recommendations from 2003 turned out to be insecure. This article, which is the third part of the series, will describe how computers are working...
24 Sep 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Luca B
The previous article of this series has given an overview of the reasons why human-generated passwords are weak (they're already out there, they're predictable, and they're short) and what was the origin of all those bizarre password creation rules t...
29 Jun 2020 11 minute read 2 comments SXNXW
Start a conversation about digital security, and it won’t be long before you’re talking about passwords. Passwords are a part of our daily life, yet very few people think about what makes a password strong, to reduce the risk of its being cracked. Le...
