Categorie: Passwords
What Weblogs Forget: Personal Security Matters
Running a weblog is fun and lucrative, but it can also put your personal safety at risk if you don’t take certain precautions. There are predators and scam artists everywhere that look just like you and me, so you can never be too careful. Learn how to avoid what many weblogs forget, because your personal […]
Lees meerDropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features
Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but that it is now adding two-factor authentication and other security features to prevent further problems.
For some background: On July 17th, a number of Dropbox users begun noticing an increase in the level spam attacking their accounts. As Sarah reported at the time, the red flag appeared when users begun reporting that the email accounts receiving spam were in fact only tied to their Dropbox accounts, which indicated that the address leak had come from Dropbox itself. Many of those reports came from the company’s international users, including Germany, the U.K. and the Netherlands.
Lees meerFormstack: Your Agency’s Client Credential Vault
It’s difficult as an agency to work through clients on domain registration issues, domain name service issues, and other account issues. Rather than waiting on the back and forth, meetings and screen-sharing, we just get all the credentials we need from our clients. That type of information isn’t good to have just sitting around in email or in a text file somewhere – so we make good use of Formstack instead. One example is when we’re migrating our clients from … Continue reading →
Sir Richard Branson & Flipboard Investor Jerry Murdock Put Nearly $1M Into MySocialCloud
MySocialCloud is a new, and somewhat stealthy, startup that aims to organize your online life through bookmarking, stream consolidation, filtering and auto-login capabilities. The service, which until now has only been available to users at a handful of colleges out in California, has some pretty impressive backers, too. The startup has raised “just shy of a million” from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock, also an investor in Flipboard and Twitter.
