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6 Reasons Your Password Stinks and How to Fix It

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

Over the weekend, I read this fascinating but horrifying article about the process hackers use to crack your passwords: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ I thought I had really strong passwords (I had wrongly assumed that a longer password was necessarily more secure than … Continue reading →

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Creating Secure Passwords with Grady the Security Dog

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

The good folks at Penn’s Office of Information Security (a unit of ISC) have created this video on how to create strong passwords for your various online accounts.  The best part? Grady the Security Dog!  And it was created with … Continue reading →

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An honest-to-goodness Mac virus – protect yourself!

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

If you think your Mac is virus-proof, think again. The folks over at Intego security have identified a newer and beefier version of the Flashback virus for OSX. It’s already spread to 600,000 computers, and it uses all sorts of … Continue reading →

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