Mobile phone security is something that can just be taken for granted. We all carry our mobile phones with us everywhere and do everything on them – but when it comes to using those phones for business, they often drop out of the company’s IT support. They shouldn’t – that’s why you come to us …

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I have been researching the annual “Geek Father’s Day” blog (this was last year’s post) when I came across this “geeky” present. It is a nice product, with various sections and dividers to highlight and organise your passwords and other sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). It even has a loop for a pen and is …

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Yes, it’s π Day again and time to make lots of nerdy maths jokes if you are into that kind of thing.  Personally I find it causes me to make lots of irrational but perfectly rounded plans. I thought my email password was the last ten digits of π, and then I remembered that whilst …

√-1 8  Σ π – and went back for more! Read More »

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Are your social media, email and other accounts actually secure? Passwords these days need to be more complicated than in previous times

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“So I can’t win then, can I? It sounds like you want my passwords to be 25 letters long and look like the cat danced on my keyboard. How on earth do I win?” You ( now frustrated!) Fear not, there is hope. Combine what you have learned and consider the following. Use many words …

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Any password that is a word, is in the crackers dictionary, and all words of any length can be checked in pretty much the same amount of time when they use what is appropriately called a ‘Dictionary’ attack. This means that all those easy and interesting long words you know, can’t be safely used, at …

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In our previous blog I introduced three factors that result in a password strength. Here are the first two I mentioned: Factor 1. Number of symbols Symbols here mean any character typically used or usable by the computer, for example numbers consist of ten symbols 0 to 9. Lower case letters a to z are …

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Almost all of you will currently be using far too few passwords, most of which are weak. Passwords can be a pain to deal with, they always get in the way and slow you down, there are times when you mis-type one 4 times in a row and you may start to question your sanity. …

Your password is bad, and you should feel bad – accessibility vs security Read More »

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