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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, April 23, 2022
• Why you might need to replace a perfectly good cell phone
• Warning: Password Managers put your online accounts at risk.
• Q&A: Did I just completely fry my PC?
• Time-lapse video: Southern Lights over Tasmania
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
It’s no secret that being connected to the Internet makes our computers and mobile devices vulnerable to hackers.
Passwords have long been used to protect our online accounts from those threats, but those once-trusted passwords are becoming less effective by the day as hacking methods become increasingly sophisticated.
In short, a simple password that’s just a few characters long offers very little real protection against the sophisticated hacking methods that are being used today. [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, January 9, 2022.
• Two great alternatives to dangerous password managers
• Q&A: Can you turn off Facebook’s voting reminders?
• Q&A: Why can’t my daughter use her own router in her dorm room?
• Q&A: Why did they use to add lead to paint?
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
I’ve written several posts explaining the dangers of using a password manager to store the passwords to all of your online accounts.
Well, new information has recently surfaced that proves just how dangerous password managers really are.
The researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have just published the results of an in-depth study that tested how effective several of the most popular password managers are at protecting your passwords from hackers.
Well, the results are troubling to say the least. [Read more…]
Many of the web’s most widely respected tech experts recommend using a password manager such as KeePass to store all of your online passwords. I don’t recommend them however, and after reading this post you will understand why.
A typical password manager will store all of your passwords in an encrypted database. In order to “open” the database to extract a needed password you’ll have to enter a master password.
This sounds like a great idea for storing and protecting a bunch of unique passwords without having to remember them all, and the concept is indeed a great one. But unfortunately it is seriously flawed. Here’s why: [Read more…]