Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.
https://blog.kamens.us/2024/10/14/case-study-anonymizing-email-addresses-for-online-accounts/
Whatever Eastern Bank's priorities were in rolling out its new portal, good UX and security seemingly weren't among them.
https://blog.kamens.us/2024/06/05/ux-failure-of-the-day-eastern-banks-new-personal-banking-portal/
I'm fairly certain I did not eat "Enjoy Cock Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce" last week. So why does the MyFitnessPal app say I did?
Even if you jump through all of PayPal's hoops and give them all the information they ask for when creating an account, they may still decide to arbitrarily lock you out of your account and never...
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/08/12/why-is-paypal-still-so-incredibly-awful/
It's a bad idea to entirely rely on the company hosting your password manager to back up your data.
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/06/26/you-should-be-backing-up-your-password-manager/
When you force people to use hard-to-remember passwords, you're actually forcing them to use bad passwords.
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/06/09/how-a-bad-password-policy-at-bank-of-america-reduces-security/
LastPass sent out an email and published a blog posting today to go with the support article they published earlier this week. They keep making things worse.
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/03/01/lastpass-still-hasnt-learned-the-first-rule-of-being-in-a-hole/
The newly released details about last fall's LastPass breach and their response to it are bad, and LastPass should feel bad, and you should stop using LastPass.
Companies that engage in slimy marketing practices tend to be slimy companies. RegScale fits that description, so you should avoid doing business with them.
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/01/05/why-you-should-not-use-regscale/
Twitter is in the news again with another security breach in which 235 million users’ email addresses, phone numbers, and Twitter handles were exposed. These seems like a good opportunity to ta...