With so many people at home, there seem to be a large number of Facebook quizzes and challenges that ask you to share personal information with friends. Some of them are fun, but what usually follows is a meme saying to stop sharing your personal […]
Tag: Security
Chase does it (mostly) right
I got an email from Chase this morning that my password there was compromised, but I don’t see any current news about it. They did have a data breach in 2014, but I’ve changed my password at least once since then. Going directly to the […]
Bad Password Rules
There simply is no legitimate reason to limit the special characters one can use in a password, as the site in the image for this post is doing. The reason this was done in the past was because of the risk of SQL injection. However, […]
Security Keys
One of the newer options for multi-factor authentication is using a security key, like the YubiKeys in the picture for this post. While not widely supported yet, many of the big tech companies – Google, Facebook and Dropbox, to list a few examples – do […]
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
Password rules suck (or worse). But what is the solution? Two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication. In other words, combining something you know (your password) with something you have (phone, 2FA key, biometrics, etc.). A common way a lot of sites do this is sending a text […]