Tag Archives: Online Service
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 [...]
News Clipping Service
Recently I was contacted by a company who wanted to sell me access to a news clipping service. I have no idea why or how they selected me, but they did the hard sell and in response to my rejections threw a free trial at me and they promised to call me after a week [...]
Google Alerts: Tracking Reputation and Events
The Internet is a big place and there are times when you want to know about something as quickly as it has happened. This can be news about a specific company, a person or a technology. You want to know everything as it happens. How can you do that? Well apart from scouring the Internet [...]
Online/Small Business Leave Management
This sounds like a diversion from the main point of this blog but it really is not. If you are a small business owner or a consultant/contractor who needs to manage a number of other people then you can be left out in the cold in terms of managing sickness and leave. What I have [...]