You may have seen a recent news blurp that President Obama’s Twitter account was recently hacked. This was accomplished by the “hacker” guessing the forgot password questions. If you think about it, these questions are usually “what is your favorite food?”, “what street did you grow up on?”, “what was your high...

Both Firefox and KeePass are popular among PCMech readers, so it makes sense that the combination of these two would be a perfect match. So if you want to ditch the integrated Firefox password manager in favor of KeePass, give the KeeFox extension a try. KeeFox is still in beta, but has a pretty nice feature list. There is a bit of configuration required and a...

In Firefox I use the built in password manager with a master password set for protection. For whatever reason, however, some sites will not allow me to save my password information. One example that I deal with is Paypal which stores the user name, but never the password. A fix for this is explained here. By running the javascript on the problem page prior to...

One of the big no-no’s in online security is using the same user name and password for different sites. The reason is simple: if one site gets compromised, your login information for other sites is now “floating around”. While having separate passwords is great in theory, practicing it is another story. To help with this, check out the Firefox...

Firefox has nice built in password management features, however the one thing it is missing is the ability to export your saved information. Doing so is a nice way to get these entries into a password manager program. To add this ability to Firefox, check out the appropriately named Password Exporter add-on. This extension allows you to export your saved...

Pretty much every current browser out there has the ability to save your user name and password information on different sites and then fill them in when you visit later. While this function is incredibly useful and convenient, it is important to remember it is not a substitution for a password manager. Since this information is stored in your browser, it lives...

You may have seen several posts and tips on this site in the past regarding the excellent open source password manager, KeePass, but today I’m going to point you to another excellent password manager: RoboForm. RoboForm (available in a free and commercial version) offers just about everything you would ever need for managing passwords. Here are some...

Everyone who uses the internet must user usernames and passwords and that’s just the way it is. Whether it’s for email, instant messaging or any web site that has authentication of any type, passwords are par for the course. Years ago most people would have only a handful of usernames and passwords to remember, but with the explosion of social media,...