The 200 Worst Passwords of 2020 We’ve been promoting strong passwords for a long time. We’ve promoted free password managers like LastPass. We’ve written numerous articles such as this one and this one, hoping to help you find easy ways of creating and remembering strong passwords. But we know that not everyone takes strong passwords seriously.… Read More »
Your Security Begins with Strong Passwords If we had a dollar for every email, we’ve received that says something like “I’ve been hacked!” we would have hundreds -maybe thousands – of dollars. Yep! We have preached and preached about using a password manager like LastPass (or pick any good password manager) to create and manage passwords. But… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly – Issue #889 – Available Online Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly, Issue #889, was sent to all our subscribers on Friday, October 23, 2020, at approximately 7:45 AM, Eastern Daylight Time (USA). If you didn’t receive our latest newsletter, it’s because your ISP didn’t deliver it… or it’s in your spam folder. We suggest, if… Read More »
How to Avoid Being Scammed … And a Cloudeight Site Pick Did you know that this year scammers will reap $2 billion in ill-gotten revenue? And all those hundreds of millions of dollars come from people just like you and me. How many times have you seen newspaper articles or TV news reports about scams and… Read More »
What to Do if You Don’t Want to Use a Password on Windows 10 We highly recommend that you always use a password on Windows 10. If you don’t want to use a password, then we recommend that you use a PIN. But we weren’t born yesterday, and we know many of you don’t want to… Read More »
Search the Web, Plant a Tree, and Get Some Extra Privacy We just found a search engine that provides you with as much security and privacy as DuckDuckGo but goes a step beyond. When you search using Ecosia, you not only enhance your search privacy, you also plant trees. And who doesn’t love trees? Well, you… Read More »