Sep 15, 2010
Some Fact
Sep 8, 2010
Recover and Change Your Old, Busted Passwords
Now it's time to do the drudge work. You're going to go back through web site usernames, passwords, and security questions, and clean them up. There is, unfortunately, no magic tool to make this easy, or save you the click-click-click work, but we do have some tips that can help.
- First off, clean out your email inbox as best you can, or at least make a note of when you started doing password cleanup. That makes it easy to find and entirely delete the emails you'll receive when recovering passwords you can't remember, or authorizing password changes.
- If you've got an older, hardly-ever-used email address that a lot of passwords are tied to, it's time to consolidate that email address into Gmail, or use the IMAP settings in Yahoo, Hotmail, or your other preferred email client to import that old address. Otherwise, it's probably time to log in one last time, set up auto-forwarding to your newer address that you actually use, then close that account foreverit's nothing but a security liability.
- On those sites where it is possible, change over to a standard username, so you can use your new password system without having to guess at the other piece of the puzzle.
- Similarly, protect your accounts from security question hackers by changing up the answers to your security questions. The standard questionsmiddle names, maiden names, childhood streets and schoolscan be researched and discoveredsometimes very easilyso choose your own questions, whenever possible, or use commenter Srwight's tip and answer different questions entirely, with a translation key.
Now it's up to you to go ahead and change your password on the sites where you can remember your original password, and recover your password from the others. The "Forgot password?", "Need help logging in?", and similar links are usually located under or next to the boxes for entering a username and password. Click them, grab the email or text message, log in again, and delete the email immediately after changing your password. This is crucialyou don't want anyone who somehow gets into your email knowing how you changed your password to a site, or, even worse, recovering even an old password from sites that make the dumb move of sending your password to you.
The most important sites to fix, right up front, are those where bad people could get at your personal life, your work, and your money. That means, as a short list, you should prioritize your email, banking, work-related, and primary shopping sites. Head to every site you can think of using regularly, recover your password, change it to use your new system, then delete the emails that resulted from your change.
Sep 1, 2010
Google monitors your web browsingtech
Here is a cool Firefox add-on also available as a Google Chrome extension, which intimates you about the monitoring, Google Alarm is the add-on, which raises an alarm, and also displays whether you are being watched or not.
Gmail is about to launch a new feature named as Priority Inbo
Gmail is about to launch a new feature named as Priority Inbox. Priority Inbox is a feature which has been developed in order to help you towards a more productive email management. If you remember AwayFind, which is a damn useful online utility, helps you by notifying you about important emails via a DM on Twitter, a SMS on your mobile phone, or even you can choose to get a call, so, in this way, you don't get distracted by looking at your inbox pretty often, rather you choose that emails from which senders are important, and you get notified only about them, whereas all other emails which aren't so important can be checked out and replied when you have time to do so. This new, to be rolled out soon feature of Gmail, known as Priority Inbox, Seems to be pretty much on similar lines, but in a different way. According to this feature Gmail will try to observe the patterns, the patterns of replying and opening the emails, it will prioritize the emails by observing that which emails you reply often, which you open often etc. You will have the options to correct these observations, if somehow Gmail makes wrong observation, suppose there is a sender, whose emails you replied pretty often initially, later you find it worthless so you stopped replying him/her, now as Gmail was observing patterns, it might end up giving a high priority to this sender, so in such case you can correct Gmail. There will be sections, to keep you organized, Sections keep you organized, and every Incoming email will get separated into sections: important and unread, starred, and everything else. If you don't like them, you can customize them. As you keep making Gmail learn and trained, this feature will start serving you better in long run, claims the official announcement page, which also has a video which clearly explains all about Priority Inbox. This feature is expected to be rolled out next week. It will be exciting to see such a feature in Gmail, looks like we are going to see another breakthrough in terms of email management for a better productivity. |