We carry all sorts of cards in our wallets – debit cards, credit cards, library cards, identity cards, business cards and many other types of cards. But now you might want to carry one more rather important card called PasswordCard. It is a card containing eight multi-colored rows of randomly selected alphanumeric characters. Using this Read More …
If you are able to memorize all of your passwords then chances are that you are using relatively weaker passwords. On the other hand, if you use super strong passwords then perhaps you have to resort to using a password manager program which could be very secure but might make it a little complicated to Read More …
It is not easy to think of a very strong password all by yourself and this is why many smart people turn to password generator web apps. These web apps are able to generate very strong passwords for your use. You can use them not only when you are creating new accounts for various services, Read More …
Many of us remember reading about the term “entropy” from the school physics book or the thermodynamics book in the university. But entropy is also a concept in cryptography – the part of information technology that deals in encryption and decryption of data. If you want to know about various ciphers and hashing algorithms then Read More …
Passfinder is a small application for Windows that can be used to create very strong passwords and send them to the password fields of almost any running application including all the major web browsers. The program can be used to store your passwords for various web apps and email addresses, but it is not really Read More …
As a kid I used to watch the cartoon show Powerpuff Girls a lot and all those who have watched this show know who Buttercup is – the toughest girl in the trio. But now there is also Buttercup software and it is completely unrelated to the cartoon show – it is actually a password Read More …
The use of passwords to secure your online accounts is now considered outdated. This is because of the increased incidents of mass hacks and data thefts from the servers of some well known organizations and corporations like Yahoo and Dropbox. Only last month (Dec 2016), Yahoo confirmed that massive hack that affected around one billion Read More …
All of your online accounts and some of the offline accounts are protected using a password. This is why it is very important to use a very secure password. While there are so many password generation apps and utilities available for free, you may want to create your own secure password yourself manually for reasons Read More …
There are many different ways to get a strong password – there are online password generators (like the Norton password generator), there are offline password generators tools (like our PassGen tool), some of the web browsers like Google Chrome come with an automatic password suggestion feature and then there are smartphone apps that can generate Read More …
Microsoft has recently made a new blog post about the importance of changing the password frequently for your Microsoft accounts. Not only that, they are also forcing the use of stronger passwords for your accounts to avoid hackers using weak passwords lists to break into your accounts. You can read the blog post made by Read More …