Passwords are not everyone’s most favorite thing in the world, unless you’re odd like me, and this unfavorableness leads people to come up with clever ways to make passwords. One of the clever ways people come up with passwords is to use song lyrics, quotes from books, and common phrases. In this post, I want …
2FA (two-factor authentication), or also called two-step login, has become more popular to use when logging into websites and services. What I’m noticing is a trend that people think 2FA will stop hackers or phishing or the many other attacks that can happen. 2FA can help, in some situations, but it’s not some magic cure. …
When it comes to secrets, the most popular version, and used most often online, are passwords. As people dig deeper into internet and computer security, they also learn about passphrases. You tend to see people learn about passphrases when they start using a password manager and need to make a master password or see them …
One creative solution that I see many people have about passwords and passphrases is to use non-English words and characters. The thinking is that mixing English words and characters with other languages will make the password harder to crack, and thus it’s more secure. But is this true? When you boil it down to the …
I’m a big fan of people using password managers, but I also suggest writing down your master password and other important information onto an emergency sheet. I suggest storing this sheet somewhere safe in your home. This is great advice and all, but what if you want to be able to tell if someone has …
With the rise of 2FA (two-factor authentication) we’re seeing an increase in people wanting to use physical keys, or Yubikey’s as they called, more and more. Since Yubikey’s are so new to people, they may wonder if they can use it for multiple online accounts? They may even have people telling them they need to …