Switchers' Blog

Paypal Phishing Scams Continue

Wow, there’s no “summer doldrums” for the hackers phishing for my paypal information!

This one is particularly funny because right in the email it says:

PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD
NEVER give your password to anyone, including PayPal employees. Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

Very ironic :)

Time to Change Our Adsense Policy

Being a small company, we don’t have the marketing budget to buy a Super Bowl ad to tell the world about how 1Passwd makes managing passwords easy. We mainly rely on Word-of-Mouth, and Google Ads.

I was doing some research on our Google Ad campaign today, and decided that the search phrases we we advertising were not needed anymore. Why? Well, take a look for yourself:

DEVONThink and the Curse of Firefox

As much as I love Camino, it has one huge disadvantage shared by all other Firefox-based browsers (Firefox and Flock): I use DEVONThink to collect and organize interesting snippets of information. DEVONThink adds a few entries to the OS X Services menu:

• Append Plain Note
• Append Rich Note
• Lookup
• Summarize
• Take Plain Note
• Take Rich Note

Digg: "Phishers Defeat RSA Token Authentication"

Digg has a discussion about recent attack against Citibank where phishers successfully defeated security based on RSA token authentication.

Here is what Register writes about this attack:

“Banks in the Netherlands and Scandinavia have used two-factor authentication for years, and the technology is widely credited with helping to make account fraud more difficult. But the Citibank attack shows the growing sophistication of fraudsters, and undermines any notion that this approach delivers complete protection”.

The solution is simple—1Passwd and similar utilities are very effective against phishing attacks. They protect against keyloggers as well.

New version of 1Passwd Available

1Passwd version 1.3 has just been released; this new release brings several new features and some bug fixes too. You can grab the new release from our Download Page.

A quick note for our existing users: Upgrading is optional; if you’re not experiencing any problems and you don’t need the new features just yet, there is no need to upgrade. You will still be able to upgrade to future versions of 1Passwd.

Alright — so what’s new? First up, AutoSaved entries are now displayed separately from the other forms in the Fill Form dropdown:

1Passwd Review on SvenOnTech

1Passwd was reviewed by Sven Rafferty today on SvenOnTech.

If you are looking for a program that keeps track of all your password and automatically fill them in when you visit a site, then this is a great program for that. With strong encrypted protection to protect your many passwords, 1Passwd is a winner. Identity profiles and phishing protection are just two more great reasons to nab this for your Mac today.

i use this

“i use this” is a nicely done web site for keeping track of your favourite Mac applications.

I added 1Passwd to the list.

You can also see all my favourite applications here: http://osx.iusethis.com/user/roustk

Found via: Infinite Loop

Password Strength

1Passwd has a strong password generator built directly into the browser so you can quickly generate a strong password for each website you want to register at.

Today I found the Microsoft Password Checker, and decided to put 1Passwd to the test. The result speaks for itself:

Safari AutoFill vs. 1Passwd

I have written before about how 1Passwd has a Better AutoFill Than Safari. While I am obviously biased, it seems I am not alone in finding the quirks in Safari hard to live with.

Sven discusses problems with Safari’s Autofill:

But there is a little problem with it. The automatic filling of the user name and password fields only takes place after a page has been completely loaded. And by "completely loaded" I mean that all of the page's elements such as images have been loaded — not just the HTML. And, you know, sometimes web sites are quirky. One of those little images gets stuck somewhere on the way; an ad-server is slow; you're on a slow internet connection; the site is on an encrypted connection — which often means it is generally slow, particularly when all of those little spacer-gifs are also served using the encrypted connection. Any of these reasons can cause the time until the page is completely loaded to be rather long, much longer than the time it takes to download the HTML and much longer than it takes Safari / WebKit to display a preliminary version of the page. So you end up seeing those empty login fields and expect them to be automatically filled with your user name and password but nothing happens ... nothing happens ... nothing happens ... ahhh, there it is

I had never noticed this problem because I am always on a DSL line. I will need to make sure 1Passwd doesn’t suffer the same problem.

And Then Came Camino

Camino fans have been beating down our door since our first beta demanding 1Passwd support their favorite browser.

Well Camino fans hold onto your hats: 1Passwd v1.2 has added support for Camino!