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		<title>Password length: are you sure 8 is enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commenter dearjym notes that, in some instances, crooks may be trying to crack your passwords at a rate of hundreds of thousands of passwords per second. He&#8217;s right. Where true, the math I presented in this recent post starts to look a little shaky. See this rather arresting summary via a blogger who used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The backdoor problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a well known truism in the security community that says that a system’s security is only as good as the backup entry method employed. That’s as true on the web as elsewhere. People forget or lose their passwords, they want to be able to get back into their accounts, and many websites give them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/the-backdoor-problem</link>
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		<title>Password length: go longer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time marches on, computing power grows stronger, hackers get cleverer. Every now and again we need to review what we once thought was &#8220;safe enough&#8221;. Today, the time has come to review what ought to be considered a safe password length. Pragmatic security and powerful bots This blog has always taken the pragmatic route to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting and tracking stolen hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phones and laptops are easily lost or stolen, and I would urge you to use one or both of the following to protect yourself in the event that it happens to you: Encrypt your personal files. If you choose to do just one of the two things on this list, choose this one.TrueCrypt is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/protecting-and-tracking-stolen-hardware</link>
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		<title>Anti-virus programs that are viruses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After buying a new computer last week, I was undergoing the usual process of uninstalling programs that the manufacturer thought would be useful to me but that I don&#8217;t care for. One of these was McAfee&#8217;s Internet Security suite. Perhaps it does a fine job of protecting computers if you give it the chance, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/anti-virus-programs-that-are-viruses</link>
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		<title>Password Safe Version 3.2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Password Safe for about 3 years, and would recommend it to everyone. Yes, it&#8217;s free. I just downloaded the latest version, and discovered the following pretty cool features: 1. You can ask the program to automatically fill in password fields on websites. Cutting and pasting wasn&#8217;t hard, but this is twice as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/password-safe-version-3-2</link>
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		<title>The worst passwords in the world&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; are also the most common passwords in the world. That&#8217;s not an accident &#8211; they&#8217;re the worst because they&#8217;re the most common. If you&#8217;re using one of these passwords for your iPhone (or anything else, really), stop it! Here is another list of passwords to avoid, many of which are unsurprisingly similar to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/the-worst-passwords-in-the-world</link>
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		<title>The fake antivirus attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, almost everyone use antivirus software to protect themselves. So have virus craftsmen given up? Nah, they&#8217;ve just adapted to the environment. A 2009 IC3 report warns that the fake virus scan attack is becoming more popular. It doesn&#8217;t surprise me, as I&#8217;ve seen it in action a fair number of times. Here&#8217;s how the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/the-fake-antivirus-attack</link>
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		<title>Metadata and smart phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beware the ancillary information you post online when you upload photos to the web. From the NYTimes: Security experts and privacy advocates have recently begun warning about the potential dangers of geotags, which are embedded in photos and videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones and digital cameras. Because the location data is not visible to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/metadata-and-smart-phones</link>
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		<title>Hotmail Hacking, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post I said that I thought there were only two possible ways that a hacker could have gained entry to my Hotmail account: mind-reading or brute force. There is actually a third possibility I failed to mention. I used to log in to my Hotmail account via this page: I should have [...]]]></description>
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