Remembr is a free Windows clipboard manager that is currently being developed by the creator of CCEnhancer, JavaRa and System Ninja. I use the clipboard a lot throughout the day. Copy urls […]
Hush is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds password protected bookmarks to the browser's private browsing mode. Note: Hush is not compatible with Firefox 57 or newer. You can […]
If you want to manage user accounts on a local Windows system, you can use the control panel or the command line for that. Both options are not really ideal when you […]
If you are using the to-do manager Wunderlist on a mobile device or the web you may find it interesting that it has been published for Windows 7 today. The program brings […]
Password managers serve many purposes: from securely storing important data such as account passwords to password generation and usability features such as automatically entering login information on websites. But similarities end there. […]
File downloads are just a matter of clicking on a link and waiting for the download to finish in most cases. There are however situations where downloads are interrupted so that you […]
Mozilla launched the new Firefox Sync feature in Firefox 29 to improve the usability of the process. It requires that you create a Firefox account which is used for authentication. The creation […]
Google Chrome, just like any other modern web browser, offers to store passwords that you enter while using it to improve future access to websites or services on the Internet. Instead of […]
If you are using the Google Chrome web browser you probably know that it ships with a basic password manager of sorts that you can use to store authentication information. That's great […]
The majority of computer users use weak passwords when they register for online services, create Windows accounts and other activities that require them to pick a password. The only situation where a […]
I have been using the KeePass password manager ever since the Last Pass security incident, as it made me move my password manager from the cloud to the local system instead. KeePass […]
Just yesterday we have reviewed the Norton Identity Safe password manager which had been released as a beta version earlier this month. Today, I'm going to look at another password manager that […]
The majority of web developers develop their websites and services locally before they publish them on the Internet. This makes sense in a variety of ways, from saving a lot of bandwidth […]
Kaspersky Password Manager is a free and paid program for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, to manage passwords across all your devices. Most password managers today offer more than just a secure […]
Tech savvy Windows users know that they can manage the operating systems' Services either from the System Configuration tool msconfig or the Service management software Services which can be launched by typing […]
We presently use application managers such as the Active Directory for the verification process while using the access credentials for various Windows Applications and other local network web applications. But as the […]
Password rules can be broken down to just a few. Users need to create unique secure passwords for the services that they use. Unique means that a password should only be used […]
Last Pass is my password manager of choice. The program is available for Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer and adds password manager capabilities to those browsers. The browser add-on offers […]
Setting up email accounts in desktop email clients like Thunderbird or Outlook is usually a do and forget type of operation. Once the accounts have been setup they do not need any […]
Secure passwords have one big disadvantage: they are hard and sometimes even impossible to remember, especially if unique secure passwords are created for each web and local service. We all know some […]
New technologies and more powerful computer systems have made it important in the last years to create secure passwords to avoid successful automatic password cracking attempts via brute force and dictionary attacks. […]
Hard Disk Manager 2009 Special Edition is a software program for the Windows operating system to manage hard drives. This includes options to back up, partition, clone, wipe and defrag hard drives, […]
The Master Password of the Opera web browser is an optional security feature that protects the saved user credentials -- site usernames and passwords -- from being accessed by anyone locally without […]
A lot of techniques exist to create unique secure passwords for the websites that you want to join. Most users however prefer the easy way and use one or a few passwords for all of the websites they are a member of and never change the password as well. The same applies to the username which is most of the time the same or a variation of that name.
Windows XP and Windows Vista save username and password information for network resources and services like Windows Live on the hard drive of the operating system. If you want to check if and which usernames and passwords are stored with the option to remove some or all of them you can do the following.
Many Internet users tend to have a handful of passwords at the most that they use for every website that they signup for. Those passwords are normally weak passwords that can be easily remembered. The danger of this approach is that those users will most likely see a chain reaction of hacked accounts once one account gets hacked.
Most internet users have serious troubles with passwords: they either choose to use the same password on all sites, use passwords that can be easily guessed by looking at the persons background or write all their passwords down to be able to look them up if they forget them. Only a few users use high quality passwords that they are able to remember.
Password chart is an online service that helps you improve the quality of your passwords. The principle is pretty easy: You enter a phrase at the beginning which will be used to create the password chart. An example would be "Make your passwords stronger with passwordchart.com" or "https://www.ghacks.net/ is gr3at". The password chart will be displayed on the right side of the screen changing while you are adding new chars to the phrase. You can opt to add numbers and punctuation for increased security, they will be added to the chart on the right.
If you are using firefox on more than one computer you might want to take a look at the password exporter extension. What if you want to login into your favorite website and can´t remember the login details ? Would not it be great to synchronise all saved passwords between those computers ?
So you have installed that nifty messenger and have not used it for some time. Now is the time to use it again, there is just one little problem: You can´t remember your password. Creating a new account would be an idea but what if you want to keep your contacts ? Messenpass reveals the password for various instant messengers, among others are: MSN Messenger, Trillian, Miranda, Gaim and AOL Instant Messenger.
The developer of the free password manager KeePass has released version 2.56 of the Windows application. KeePass is a local password manager by default; this means that it does not require a […]
Over 200 million email addresses were copied from Twitter in early 2023. News of the leak broke when the email addressed turned up in a hacking forum. Active Twitter users and those […]
Some users of the LastPass password manager revealed this week that they have received emails from LastPass stating that logins to their accounts using the account's master password were blocked. The first […]
The following guide lists my essential software of 2016. It is very similar to a guide that I published in 2014 listing the software that I use to run this blog but […]
The following guide lists essential software that you may want to install on a a Windows 10 system. This is particularly useful for systems that are set up anew as programs are […]
Online security company LastPass published an announcement yesterday on the official company blog that it detected and blocked suspicious activity on the company network. According to the information posted on the blog, […]
The password manager LastPass is without doubt one of the most popular online password management solutions. A core reason for that is that it is available as a free version that offers […]
If you are using Firefox's option to save usernames and passwords for websites that you visited to automatically fill them in when you visit them again you might find a Greasemonkey script called AutologinJ useful. I'm not quite sure what the J stands for but this nice little script presses the login button for you automatically which pretty much means that you can lean back and enjoy the show while Firefox logs you in automatically to the website that you just visited.
Proton has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the encrypted note-taking app, Standard Notes. The company says that the privacy-focused Proton has been expanding its portfolio steadily overtime, evolving from […]
Downfall, a popular mod for Slay The Spire, was hijacked by attackers. The developer of the mod has published some details about what happened. While it is not the first time a […]
