I started using Siber System’s RoboForm Password Manager in 2007 after a colleague recommended it. I tried their free version briefly and then happily shelled out $20 for a license. Since then, I’ve had different passwords on sites and have increasingly made them more complex over the years. When I decided to leave RoboForm, mostly due to…
Half of American adults had their personal information exposed to hackers last year alone. In a recent attack at the federal Office of Personnel Management, hackers stole the most sensitive personal data for 21.5 million people. The New York Times recently created a microsite that allows you to answer a few questions to learn which parts of your…
We regularly read about companies experiencing security breaches, and yet we continue to give an insane amount of data (and level of detail within that data) to companies without giving much thought to how they’re using it, how they’ll protect it, or whether we should perhaps limit their ability to store it. Sometimes, as I’ve…
Looking for a way to keep your online accounts (cloud storage, banking, social media, email, etc.) as secure as possible? Two-factor verification (also known as two-step authentication, abbreviated to TFA) is a process involving two stages to verify the identity of a user trying to access services in a computer or in a network. This is…