Tag: password
Biometric USB Stick: Ultimate Fingerprint Password Management Solution
Here we go again...This is another Kickstarter project that launched 2 days ago with a goal to raise $150,000. In just 2 days, they've surpassed their goal and have reached $163,928 at the time I'm writing this. What is the hubbub about this product? It's called myIDkey, and it's a biometric USB sti ...
![Password Strength: How Strong Is Your Password? [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/password-strength-security-breach-infographic-optimized.jpeg "Password Strength: How Strong Is Your Password? [Infographic]")
Password Strength: How Strong Is Your Password? [Infographic]
Internet security has always been a continuously evolving issue we've all had to deal with at one point or another. There are new and stronger security measures created on a daily basis, and yet they keep being overridden by crackers all over the world. This is usually not due to the security streng ...
![The Risky Tech Behavior Of Young Professionals [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Young-Professionals-Risky-Behavior-Infographic-optimized.jpg "The Risky Tech Behavior Of Young Professionals [Infographic]")
The Risky Tech Behavior Of Young Professionals [Infographic]
Before I get into all the ways that young professionals are apparently exhibiting risky tech behavior these days according to a Cisco study, I'd like to first say something in their defense. I don't know exactly at what age someone is considered a "young professional," but I do know that my generati ...
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Twacked: When Good Twitter Accounts Go Bad [Infographic]
It's a common theme on Twitter to see someone's account get hacked and suddenly start tweeting a bunch of horse manure. It's also quite common to see tweets that warn us about things not to click on. It can be everything from DMs to tweets, but the tweets usually say the same thing, "If you get 'thi ...
![How Smartphones Are Phished & How To Avoid It [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/How-Phone-Is-Phished-Infographic-optimized.jpg "How Smartphones Are Phished & How To Avoid It [Infographic]")
How Smartphones Are Phished & How To Avoid It [Infographic]
There have been a lot of reports published lately about our security as it relates to our mobile devices. In this article, we are going to specifically talk about phishing. Phishing is the technique used to convince us to enter our personal information (usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, ban ...
The Twitter HTTPS Setting In Plain English
We've all seen the tweets over the past few days about the new "HTTPS Only" checkbox in our settings menu in Twitter, but a lot of people still don't understand what that box means and why it's there.
Bottom line, I think everyone should go in and check that box, and this is why. One of the most ...
Protect Your Password With Help From A Geeky Stripper
As we all know, computer hackers are getting better at what they do each day, thus becoming a daily annoyance that many of us think about. Just this past week, the hacker group Anonymous was all over the news again, freaking everyone out with their coy calculated cyber threats and mind-blowing skil ...
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Secure Your Stuff: Top Hackable Passwords [Infographic]
It's nothing new that we are all dependent on our passwords. Without them, we wouldn't have an Internet, or at least not all the different services we use every day. Take Facebook for example, it's a service used by 600 million people and growing fast. If it was an open community with no password ...
How To: Steal Your Friend’s Facebook Password!
Do you think that your passwords are safe from people's hacker fingers? Well, think again, cause there are ways to get around the road bumps of the ones and zeros. You see, it doesn't really matter if you can't hack by using your computer to get through back doors or security flaws, there are alwa ...
You Think Your Password Is Private? Think Again.
The Georgia Institute of Technology, a school only a few miles away from me, revealed some interesting results from their intense research this week.
According to CNN, "The researchers used clusters of graphics cards to crack eight-character passwords in less than two hours." Yes, that means eve ...
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