Diceware passwords now need six random words to thwart hackers
From an article by Jon Brodkin – at arstechnica 3/27/2014 Diceware creator Arnold Reinhold wrote “Six words may be breakable by an organization with...
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Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
by Dan Goodin in arstechnica – 5/27/2013 “The ease these crackers had in recovering as many as 90 percent of the hashes they targeted...
Kill the Password: A String of Characters Won’t Protect You
The full article originally appeared at www.wired.com. “What we can say for sure is this: Access to our data can no longer hinge on...
SPAUG Meeting
Jan 14, 2015
Safe practices on the internet require that you use multiple long and strong passwords which are hard to break and also hard to remember. Password vaults allow you to generate strong passwords and store them in an encrypted file under a single master password. They also allow you to store other sensitive information.