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Tag: passwords

What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
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What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Michael Sauers

Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users — and secured sites — make to…

Tuesday Tech Tip: How the Experts Protect Themselves Online (Compared to Everyone Else)
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Tuesday Tech Tip: How the Experts Protect Themselves Online (Compared to Everyone Else)

Posted on July 28, 2015July 27, 2015 by Michael Sauers

If you ask the average person what the best ways to protect themselves online are, they’ll give some true answers—but they’ll likely be different than…

Friday Video: Ian Urbina and the Secret Life of Passwords
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Friday Video: Ian Urbina and the Secret Life of Passwords

Posted on January 2, 2015December 30, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Ian Urbina, author of The Secret Lives of Passwords, talks about what passwords mean to people beyond their access to email or social networking accounts.…

Securing Yourself with LastPass
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Securing Yourself with LastPass

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Here’s the video of my LastPass presentation from the Nebraska Library Association Conference presented on 10 October 2014.

Tuesday Tech Tip: Introducing Auto-Password Changing with LastPass
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Introducing Auto-Password Changing with LastPass

Posted on December 16, 2014December 14, 2014 by Michael Sauers

In case you needed yet another reason to use LastPass… We’re excited to announce that the Auto-Password Change feature we released to our Pre-Build Team…

WordPress proactively reacts to Gmail passwords leak
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WordPress proactively reacts to Gmail passwords leak

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Bravo WordPress! This week, a group of hackers released a list of about 5 million Gmail addresses and passwords. This list was not generated as…

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Go change your eBay password now

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Ebay says that its corporate network and databases were compromised earlier this year, and will ask its users to change their passwords. Read more @…

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Passwords: Don’t be that guy

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Michael Sauers
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Tuesday Tech Tip: How to Set up LastPass

Posted on April 15, 2014April 14, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Published on Apr 13, 2014 Leo demonstrates how to create and use secure passwords with LastPass.  

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Some calm, yet firm, advice for those wondering about Heartbleed

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Michael Sauers

I’ve been putting off this post for a few days to allow for the immediate freak-out to die down and to let some actually good…

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