Posts Tagged ‘passwords’

The 6 Passwords You Clearly Shouldn't Use Based On The Gawker Password Hacks

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Gawker Media continues to recover from a bad week after being forced to admit that its most popular sites like Gizmodo, Gawker and Lifehacker were left open to hackers who tapped into the usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users. Now there’s news that the sites’ dedicated, and typically web-savvy, users are surprisingly not online privacy-savvy, or maybe just careless.

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Your Online Safe Deposit Box

sulfeAs a kid, I remember several trips with my mom to the safe deposit box. It was a security-escorted trip through brightly-lit and narrow hallways. Eventually, the journey ended in front of a tiny gold box.

What was in there?

At the time I pictured bars of gold, treasure maps, and secret codes. It wasn’t until years later, when I was a teenager, that I came to discover what was really in the box; a few pieces of ‘grandma’s old jewelry.’ Worthless.

With all this technology upon now upon, there’s a good chance today’s generation will never make a trip to a safe deposit box. Especially when there are Web sites like Sulfe.com. Read more