Passwords

Clef is shutting down

published on March 7, 2017 by Mike Categories: WordPress #Tagged: 2FA, clef, login, Passwords, security

Clef have announced that they are sunsetting their secure login service, the service will cease to work on 6 June 2017. The sunsetting and closure was announced on the Clef Blog, but no reason for the decision was given. Clef was one of, if not the best, login service I had found for the many […]

AOL Security Alert

published on April 30, 2014 by Mike Categories: Internet #Tagged: AOL, E-mail, Passwords, security

AOL are reporting a serious security breach of the E-mail systems. According to the AOL Blog, unauthorised access of AOL’s network and systems took place, although it doesn’t give any dates of the access.

Passwords & security

published on April 29, 2014 by Mike Categories: General Rambling, Internet, Social Media #Tagged: 2 Factor Authentication, Google Authenticator, LastPass, Passwords, safety, security, Yubikey

A couple of weeks ago the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL focused everyone on to security and passwords, remember that? yeah pretty much forgotten about now. You’ve spent time changing your passwords haven’t you?

Heartbleed who do we believe?

published on April 9, 2014 by Mike Categories: Internet #Tagged: Open SSL, Passwords, security, servers

So there has been this huge security hole found in Open SSL which means people could potentially have seen your username and password when you thought it was secure using https. Tom Scott explains the Heartbleed vulnerability very clearly here Now there has been lots & lots written about this, I’m adding to that big […]