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Think you know it all when it comes to passwords and protecting your digital life? Guess again. As the saying goes, it’s what you don’t know that can hurt you. Here below are some popular myths about passwords and digital security – busted for you. Myth: Most people exercise reason and caution in securing their

Tips and Tricks for Cyber Safe Foreign Travels Vacation time is looming, and with the growing strength of the U.S. dollar vs. other currencies, many people are making plans for international travel. If you are among them, be sure you have done all you can to take responsibility for cybersecurity when traveling. After all, it’s

It’s spring: Out with the old! Organizing and cleaning up your digital life has gotten easier Spring is here, which many people will greet with determination to clean out a lot of junk – from closets, garages, desks, and so on. But what about your digital life? As it turns out, that too will benefit

Updated on June 15th, 2023. If you own a mobile device you probably use a PIN to unlock the device instead of a password. But what exactly is a PIN and how does it differ from a password? The main differences between a PIN and a password are that there is more flexibility when creating

Keeper’s engineering team prioritizes the security and privacy of our customers over all feature and functionality decisions in our application.  Our company policy has a strict zero-knowledge and no-data-leakage policy and everything we create adheres to these protocols. Recently, a team of researchers posted a report about vulnerabilities and bugs in various Android password management

Cyber security becomes more important every day as hackers continue to target users for personal information that can be sold for a profit on the dark web. With more than 10 million consumers engaged with Keeper on a daily basis, we thought it would be a good idea to find out a bit more about

Users approach security in a similar way as they do on their desktop computers. This can be a problem, given the unique vulnerability of a smartphone – the small computer that fits in your pocket.  Today, nearly 2.3 billion people use a smartphone. Keeper conducted a detailed survey of 1,000 smartphone users to determine how

This week it was revealed that the content delivery service provider, Cloudflare, was affected by a systemic vulnerability that leaked sensitive information from secure HTTPS connections. While the actual manifestation of the bug that caused the leak at first glance may seem relatively small, affecting an estimated 0.00003% of all requests to the Cloudflare service,

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If you work at a small or midsize business (SMB), you must presume that your organization will fall victim to a cyber attack. It is imprudent to do otherwise, given that a major study of SMBs last year found that half of all SMBs suffered data breaches involving customer and employee information in the past 12

By Darren Guccione, Co-founder and CEO of Keeper Security Looking at the list of 2016’s most common passwords, we couldn’t stop shaking our heads. Nearly 17 percent of people are safeguarding their accounts with “123456.” What really perplexed us is that so many website operators are not enforcing password security best practices. Using external, public data

The new year is the time for resolutions, and what better way to enhance your peace of mind than to resolve to improve security? Here are some life hacks – or strategies to manage your life more efficiently – that you can adopt to improve online security, safeguard your home and protect your personal information.

2016 will go down as yet another banner year – unfortunately – for hackers and data thieves globally. This article looks at some of the successful attacks while probing for patterns and trends in cybercrime. Big target on the IoT: The Dyn DDoS attack. Our blog on cybercrime predictions for 2017 forecasted increasing efforts of

Threatpost breaks with the conventional wisdom that an information service funded by a technology company is inherently biased. The independent news site is owned by Kaspersky Labs, but its reputation as an authoritative, independent source of cyber security news has been endorsed by such leading news outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street

It’s the holiday season, and at Keeper that means our thoughts turn to security. Actually they turn to security every other time of the year, too, but now is when we think about what we could give that’s a little different. If you’re a Keeper customer, you already have password security covered. Here are some

With a new year just over the horizon, we asked six security experts for their views and opinions on what events and trends will unfold in 2017 in the cyber security space. These are people that have spent a great deal of time and energy on the front lines of the contemporary threat environment. 1)

Per Thorsheim, 45, has a self-described “insane” interest in passwords. As one of the world’s foremost security consultants focused solely on passwords, Thorsheim is the founder of PasswordsCon, the respected academic conference where international password security experts gather twice per year in Las Vegas and Europe. He spoke with us from his home in Bergen,

What do the words and advice of a former, highly successful CEO of IBM have in common with sound password management? The answer is surprising. Lou Gerstner, who propelled IBM to nearly 10 years of non-stop growth and prosperity, has a poignant message for top executives at all companies. When it comes to establishing corporate

Dr. Michael Pound’s current research focuses on image analysis for phenotyping crops, but you don’t have to be an expert in agriculture – or even computer science – to be frightened by this Computerphile video in which Pound demonstrates a deep-learning server called Beast at the University of Nottingham. Beast uses four parallel graphics processing

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