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LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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How to Configure a Router to Use WPA2 in 7 Easy Steps

eSecurity Planet

To protect against those threats, a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption protocol is recommended. WPA2 is a security protocol that secures wireless networks using the advanced encryption standard (AES). WEP and WPA are both under 4%, while WPA2 commands a 73% share of known wireless encryption connections.

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World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident. Create complex passwords that cannot be easily guessed and are different for each account. A password manager is an effective way to keep track of many complex passwords.

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We're Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password

Troy Hunt

In particular, Mozilla was instrumental in the birth of Let's Encrypt , the free and open certificate authority that's massively increased the adoption of HTTPS on the web. My relationship with 1Password stretches all the way back to 2011 when I came to the realisation that the only secure password is the one you can't remember.

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Smart home security advice. Ring, SimpliSafe, Swann, and Yale

Pen Test Partners

Encryption: End-to-end encryption isn’t enabled by default for doorbells but should be activated. Privacy and Passwords: Two-step verification is done by default, but multi-factor authentication (MFA) is recommended. Encryption: What’s the deal? Is Ring secure for UK users?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. Don't use familiar passwords seriously.

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If You're Not Paying for the Product, You Are. Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free

Troy Hunt

How about ASafaWeb in 2011 ? The partnership with 1Password several years later is the same again; arguably, it made HIBP more useful for the masses or non-techies that had never given any consideration to a password manager. Totally free and designed to solve the common problem of ASP.NET website misconfiguration. So why do it?