With email and website passwords, are successful "brute force" attacks still common, where an automated bot tries thousands and thousands of passwords on the same user account until one works?
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posted by pete_22
on Jan 9, 2013 -
17 answers
Please help me find the password management solution I'm hoping exists: the ability to automatically, dynamically sync a specific folder of passwords between accounts w/o involving Dropbox.
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posted by pavane
on Mar 20, 2012 -
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How do I make my passwords available to loved ones if I die suddenly, but keep them secure while I'm alive?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 22, 2012 -
25 answers
Can you help me understand how to approach a couple issues of server security. (1) I want to run things in 'silos', so that if someone from the web has hacked and has code level access to example.com/blog they can't query the db of example.com/app (2) If they do get access to a user database, how do I make it harder for them to figure out passwords (beyond just storing them as md5)?
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posted by the mad poster!
on Nov 16, 2011 -
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If I wanted banks or companies like LastPass to hire me to be on their security team to make systems safer and to block out hackers, what websites/books/resources should I dive into to go from n00b to pr0 ??
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posted by querty
on Aug 29, 2011 -
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Is Randall Munroe right about passwords in today's
xkcd? Are very long (all lower case) plain text passwords more secure than short ones using a mix of numerals and upper/lower case text?
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posted by Ahab
on Aug 10, 2011 -
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I want to access my personal diary from anywhere - and keep it as secure as possible at the same time. Here's my idea on how to do this...what do you think?
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posted by jspierre
on Jul 1, 2011 -
19 answers
Having a minor freak out about identity theft, and looking for advice on making sure all my online information is as secure as possible.
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posted by goshling
on Jan 5, 2011 -
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Up to now, I have used Apple's Keychain program to manage my passwords. I recently got an iPad, and now I have lots of login passwords that I don't have memorized and can't access from my iPad browser. So, I'm looking for a password management setup that will do the following things (or as many as possible):
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posted by philosophygeek
on Jan 1, 2011 -
16 answers
Best practices for storing OracleDB/mysql/ldap/smtp/etc... system passwords for enterprise application integration use?
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posted by bottlebrushtree
on Oct 8, 2009 -
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What's the best way, once I tell a client I'm done with her, to protect myself from claims of unauthorized access or sabotage on the systems I configured for her?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 18, 2009 -
7 answers
I have a shiny new 4 GB USB drive, and I want to secure the information on it (bank info, passwords, etc). What's the best (free) way to do this?
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posted by Irontom
on Jan 8, 2009 -
10 answers
Is anyone aware of a password manager that will perform the following functions?
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posted by tcv
on Mar 15, 2008 -
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I'm looking to arrange a particular password setup with several unpaid staffers in my office.
Here's the arrangement: 5-10 folks each day access one or more of ten online accounts that we communally use. I want to ut able to easily distribute the passwords and have the users be able to employ them without ever being able to see what it is.
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posted by ud-gb
on Jul 9, 2007 -
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I typically use Safari, and have my preferences set to store all of my passwords and user names in my Keychain.app. However when it starts acting up and giving me the spinning beach ball, I use Camino (v. 1.0.3.) When I try to log in to a website, it asks me for my user name and password - do I really have to fill in ALL those passwords and user names all over again? In other words, is there any way I can get Camino to access the passwords I saved using Safari?
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posted by invisible ink
on Sep 19, 2006 -
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I cannot remember my windows XP Pro password. I am an administrator. Need to install software and change to a dynamic ip address.
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posted by JohnnyGunn
on Jun 21, 2006 -
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I want my browser to remember my password for a couple of sites, but it must assume that I don't want most of my passwords remembered. I hate browser popups that ask "Remember this password?" What's a good solution? I use Firefox on Windows.
posted by pornucopia
on Apr 9, 2006 -
5 answers
WebSecurityFilter: I'm looking for a PHP or CGI script which would redirect a user to their password protected folder when they enter their username and password.
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posted by DragonBoy
on Dec 21, 2005 -
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Does it bother you to click on Yahoo! links and unexpectedly see your Yahoo! name on the screen because you prefer to store your Yahoo (enough with the exclamation point already) password in a cookie?
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posted by mono blanco
on Dec 18, 2005 -
19 answers
Let's say I wanted to create a simple web app to store my various usernames and passwords. The app and database would be hosted externally (by Dreamhost). I would use a secure connection for any HTTP stuff going back and forth, and I would encrypt all of the passwords before going into the db, and I can only extract and decrypt a password after entering a pass phrase that exists only in my brain. What would it take for someone else to get at my passwords?
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posted by patgas
on Jul 12, 2005 -
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