Tag Archives: security

The NSA’s Betrayal Explained

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Charles Seife, Pando Daily:

“The implications are clear. The NSA has abandoned half of its mission; it no longer feels obliged to help Americans keep their communications secure from outside attackers. Just the opposite. The NSA now feels that to fulfil its intelligence-gathering function, it must undermine the cryptographic security of American citizens and corporations. The NSA of the 1970s was trying to protect our digital infrastructure against exactly the kinds of attacks that the NSA of the 2000s is successfully carrying out again and again.”

This article helps put into perspective the magnitude of what has been revealed by the Snowden leaks.

That Adobe Hack

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130 million accounts. 38 million active users. 3 million credit cards. Source code for Acrobat, Reader, Cold Fusion and Photoshop. All of it protected by encryption so flawed it has literally become a game.

The most frightening part? What the decrypted passwords reveal about our general state of digital security: millions of people, including government agencies, using passwords like “123456” on their accounts.

Like leaving your house, car or wi-fi unlocked, the time has come to stop using the same easy password for everything. You simply must use a password manager such as 1Password to be a responsible person with a digital life. Still not convinced; think there’s security in large numbers? Read the very scary security breach story of Mat Honan and think again.

1PW FT(W)

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AgileBits released a major new version of their flagship product, 1Password. The leading cross-platform password manager, the latest version has received positive press from places like 9to5Mac, MacStories, TUAW, The Verge and many more.

Protecting your passwords is just a mandatory responsibility now, like locking your doors or securing your wi-fi network. Not doing so leaves everything you do online open to exploitation (just ask Mat Honan). Whether you use a post-it note on the computer, or the same password for every site, you are asking to have your trust broken and digital identity ruined. 1Password does what it says on the tin, allowing you to remember just one password while providing unique, strong passwords for each website or log in you have.

A great partnership that makes natural sense would be between AgileBits and File Transporter. File Transporter by Connected Data, provides a private, personal version of Drop Box. A seamless experience of 1Password software on top of Transporter hardware would be a natural partnership for personal security.