Tag Archives: Cloud Computing
Password Management – Epilogue
It has been a little over a week now since the Twitter password hack, which we now know to have been hack allowed by a system design flaw in the authentication system used by them, combined with human factors. A standard dictionary attack was used with a list of known words (combined with single or [...]
Password Management
The recent Twitter hacks and the password change that ensued brought to mind approaches that are followed for password management. Now please forgive the heresies I am about to commit. The standard approach to password management is to have a complex and different password per service and change it often… like once a month. This [...]
Netbooks and the Long Distance Worker
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has taken a look at several Netbooks and has posted a summary video as follows: Walt pushes his review from the perspective that Netbooks are some sort of halfway house between Smartphones and standard Laptops. This may have once been the case when dealing with the little 7” [...]