It’s generally good advice to change your email password periodically. The Hotmail system unfortunately buries how to do that in a sea of menus – but – there’s an alternative method that’s much faster. Instead of accessing the appropriate menu from within Hotmail to change the password, you’re better off just loading up your...

How strong is your password? Do you even know? Well, now you can with Password Meter. It requires no software install as it’s just a web site. It also (and this is important) doesn’t require you to submit anything. Simply start typing and the web site will instantly update on you how strong or weak the password you enter actually is. Using the...

Recently I wrote "bad" password advice that specifically concentrates on using 10-character passwords and utilizing a password manager to manage them. This tutorial is even simpler. It requires no password manager and all you have to remember is one word and one number, passwords are only 8 characters long and at the same time stay unique per each web...

Passwords are something we all have to deal with, and some websites are very specific as to what type of passwords they will accept. As a general rule, the most “friendly” password you can use is one that is between 8 to 12 characters long; it starts with a letter, followed by a number and then has 6 to 10 alphanumeric characters after that. Using a...

Yesterday I wrote about an new Sysinternal’s tool, so it is only fitting that today I write about a new tool released by Nirsoft, RouterPassView: Most modern routers allow you to backup the configuration of the router into a file, and then restore the configuration from the file when it’s needed. The backup file of the router usually contains...

In Windows XP I use KeePass Password Safe, however in Ubuntu I was wondering if there was a similar program I could use there as well. It turns out there is and it’s nearly identical to the Windows version, called KeePassX. The great thing about KeePassX is that if you’re already using KeePass there is literally no learning curve whatsoever. ...

If you take advantage of Firefox’s ability to save passwords and prefill them on certain web pages, eventually you will have a bunch of dead or out of date entries. It is good idea to occasionally review and clean them out. Here is how (Firefox 3):Go to Tools > Options. Security tab > click Saved Passwords. Click Show Passwords. It is good to show...

KeePass Password Safe is a free password manager utility program that I’ve written about before. One question that came about is "Okay, so you can save a password file locally. But how about backing it up to a server?" KeePass does in fact have the ability to do this via FTP. Using the latest version 2.06 beta, you open your database and click...

KeePass Password Safe is a free open source password manager for Windows. If you happen to be using something other than Windows there are contributed versions for PocketPC, Smart devices, Linux, Mac OS X, Blackberry and others. One very cool feature of this app is the ability to use custom icons from any image to represent entries. Being that images are stored...