by Terry McAdams | Feb 20, 2024 | 1Password, How-To, Internet, password manager, passwords, privacy, Security
How would you realize that one or more of your Internet accounts—email, social media, financial—have been hacked? (Some prefer the terms “compromised” or “breached”—you may hear them from support techs.) Unfortunately, there’s no telltale warning sign because “hacked”...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 1, 2024 | 1Password, password manager, passwords, Security, Tip
January’s big security news was the Mother of All Breaches, the release of a massive database containing 26 billion records built from previous breaches across numerous websites, including Adobe, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It’s unclear how much of the leaked data...
by Terry McAdams | Jan 3, 2024 | Backup, Email, password manager, Security, Time Machine
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2024! For many of us here in Wichita Falls, starting a new year means reflecting on fresh habits we’d like to adopt. Although we support any resolutions you may have made to get enough sleep, eat better, exercise more, and reduce social...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 27, 2023 | 1Password, iOS, password manager, Tip
Let’s say you use 1Password (or another third-party password manager) on an iPhone or iPad. When that’s the case, it’s easy to end up in a situation where your device will present passwords from both 1Password and iCloud Keychain, possibly along with another app. That...
by Terry McAdams | Jan 10, 2023 | 1Password, News, password manager, passwords, privacy, Security
Password management company LastPass has announced that it suffered a security breach in which attackers stole both encrypted customer account data (which is bad) and customer vaults containing encrypted usernames and passwords (which is much, much worse). On the...
by Terry McAdams | Jan 5, 2023 | password manager, passwords, privacy, Tip
Whatever consumer electronics product you can name, there’s probably a “smart” version that you configure via an app or Internet-connected interface once you’ve connected it to your Wi-Fi network. For ease of setup and to keep costs down, many such devices come...
