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The security breach that led to millions of Last.fm passwords being compromised happened at least three months ago — and remained undetected, despite the fact that the company suspected in May that it had been targeted. Read more »

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Over the weekend, the servers of Gawker Media were hacked. Account data, including usernames and passwords of blog commenters, have been stolen. If you have an account on a Gawker blog and use the same password anywhere else, it’s imperative that you change those passwords immediately. Read more »

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One way to create strong passwords is to use randomly-generated phrases and store them in a password manager. Alternatively, you could use a password hashing tool to create passwords for each of the sites you use from a master password in conjunction with a parameter. Read more »

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We have written volumes about password management here at WWD. The nature of our work, mobility and reliance on data in the cloud certainly makes it an important issue. I have long been a fan of the RoboForm Password Manager. Its ability to securely generate and […] Read more »

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Recently, we shared one of several cross-platform methods to synchronize passwords using the cloud. There’s many available options and methods to tackle this challenge, and you can add another one now that Foxmarks has officially launched version 2.5. This Firefox extension is well-known for synchronizing bookmarks, […] Read more »

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We always like a good utility here at WWD. But we like it even better when two of our favorite utilities start working well together. That’s the case with 1Password and Dropbox: if you’re storing your passwords (and other confidential information) in 1Password, you can now […] Read more »

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What do you do with a failed TV pilot from 2006, starring then-unknown Thomas Dekker (John Conner in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)? If you’re director Billy Dickson and producer Chad Cooperman, you cut it up in into 5-minute chunks to create a web series, perfectly […] Read more »

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve completely lost count of how many passwords I have online. 100? 200? I have no idea. And yes, I know, each of them should be unique as more and more of who I am and what I do ends […] Read more »

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You can’t concentrate on anything while waiting for the gadget delivery person. You get your box cutter out first thing on delivery day just so it’s ready when the gadget arrives. You stop in your tracks every few minutes every time you hear a truck drive […] Read more »

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For those of you who have far too many sites to log into and far too short of a memory to remember them all, this program will save your life. 1Password is a simple, elegant system that incorporates itself into most browsers and like Keychain, will […] Read more »

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Has Comcast (CMCSA) acquired BuddyTV, a TV news, commentary, and community site? That’s what Joseph Weisenthal at paidContent says. We haven’t received a response to a request for comment on the topic from the company — though we have to wonder why CEO Andy Liu was […] Read more »

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TechTool Pro has always been known as a big player in the community of Mac utilities, but has maintained its unique approach to combining an extremely powerful program with a very user-friendly interface. Unfortunately for utility developers, OS X is a fairly robust system and doesn’t […] Read more »

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DigiTimes seems to think so, but I’m a wee bit skeptical for a few reasons. First off, why drop your current handheld line if you’re going to enhance it? That’s not good for brand recognition, in my opinion. Second: we’ve already got a big player jumping […] Read more »

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If you read the news reports you would think that harried consumers sick and tired of malicious spyware and all the other online crud normally blamed on Internet Explorer would be switching allegiances in large numbers. That percentage seems to be around 11%, according to research […] Read more »

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AT&T has entered the increasingly crowded IP-Centrex business this morning with its AT&T Voice DNA(SM) service. Interestingly, AT&T’s corporate parent SBC has been selling its own IP-Centrex offering for a few months now. The company says the service will have “all of the standard features of […] Read more »

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Rio Carbon (5GB) according to CNET Reviews is better than IPod Mini. Ouch! Well my initial impression of Rio Carbon – it does not feel as plush as IPod Mini, is a bit on the flimsy side, and yes has signs of being poorly crafted. Rio’s […] Read more »