LastPass’s Premium Features Are Now Free

LastPass, premium features are now free. Since it’s inception LastPass’s services have been free but you could not use a free account with a mobile device. Now even that is free. You must still get a premium account to to get some of the features including: Family Sharing – up to 5 users YubiKey &…

Learn Ethical Hacking

What is Ethical Hacking The term white hat in Internet slang refers to an ethical computer hacker, or a computer security expert, who specializes in penetration testing and in other testing methodologies to ensure the security of an organization’s information systems. This is a unique skill that requires many, many hours of training and study….

Time to Uninstall QuickTime

Apple has announced that they will no longer update QuickTime for Windows. QuickTime is a media player from Apple. You may not recall installing QuickTime but if you have installed iTunes you have it. Trend Micro has already found security flaws in QuickTime and Apple says they will not fix them. This being the case…

Sandboxie

Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation program for Windows. Sandboxie uses isolation technology to separate programs from your underlying operating system preventing unwanted changes from happening to your personal data, programs and applications that rest safely on your hard drive. Secure your favorite web browser and block malicious software, viruses, ransom-ware and zero day threats by isolating such…

Windows without admin eliminates most vulnerabilities!

I’ve always said that it was unsafe to run as administrator in Windows. I was always sure that this was good advise but I did not know how much this would help. At last months RSA Conference (a cryptography and information security-related conference) a paper was introduced that shows that 85% of all critical Microsoft…

LastPass, Good For Now

October 13th on Security Now Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte had Joe Siegrist of LastPass to talk about the acquisition of LastPass by LogMeIn. Looks like for now Joe will remain at LastPass to run things. Joe said that LogMeIn had no plans to change things, at least for now. I gather from this conversation that…

AVG Goes Rogue

AVG the worlds 3rd most popular anti-virus announce that they will sell your browsing data to third parties as an additional income stream  beginning of October.

LastPast Purchased by LogMeIn

A few days ago I learned that LastPass favorite password manager has acquisition by LogMeIn a provider of software as a service and cloud-based remote connectivity services for collaboration. I’m not sure where this leaves LastPass but for now I think it is OK. I would stay with LastPass until I hear something from Steve Gibson of Security…

ProXPN and Introduction to VPN

ProXPN is the easiest to use free VPN. Quickly secure your Internet connection and unblock any website. Our VPN works with Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and more. ProXPN is free to use forever but it limit your speed through the VPN to 300kbp. If you login to a lot of open wifi it is a must….

uBlock Origin, Best Ad Blocker

uBlock Origin is an effective ad-blocker for your Firefox, Chrome, Opera Safari web-browsers that is effective and easy to use. uBlock Origin is effective in blocking unwanted ad content and worst of all malware without any configuration of any kind but it can easily be configured to allow or disallow as much of the content you want…