With all of the recent online services and companies falling under attack to hackers in the past few months, it seems only fitting to talk about password creation and management. There are a lot of resources out there discussing this, but it never hurts to revisit this topic time and again because of its…

In my work with clients I have run into passwords in all kinds of unbelievably random and insecure places. I always shrink back from them when I see them… I don’t want to know! Passwords are the key to unimaginable ruin in the wrong hands, and it consistently shocks me how careless people are with…

Work. Kids. School. Sports. Second job. Partner’s job. The next great American novel. Your knitting circle. Remodeling the guest bathroom. Taking your car in for its 30,000 mile tune-up. An on and on and on — it seems like we have things to do in abundance. What we don’t ever seem to have enough of…

If you like the idea of using strong passwords that are hard as nails to crack, but fall apart trying to remember numbers and symbols – like me – here are some tips that could save you your next identity theft. This method works by creating meanings for symbols: ! excitement, strong emotion @ the letter A, the…

With the proliferation of web services — there’s a new one out each day, it seems — it feels like we’re always creating new accounts, each with a different username and password. The easy options — using the same password each time or writing them down on paper or in a spreadsheet — aren’t exactly…

Sometimes we may have too many password to remember. Drop everything and free our mind? Not yet without dropping password down in a secure way. Try KeePass. It is an open source password manager which helps you manage your passwords in secure way. The database are encrypted with good encryption algorithms (geeky terms they…