Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

Imagine that you have a fleet of dozens of expensive vehicles, and you keep all of their keys in a locked cabinet. There is a master key that opens the cabinet. You assign your IT team

NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US, is releasing new password standards that make passwords so much easier…

A password manager company announced that there is a vulnerability that could allow attackers to gather stored passwords.

After last week’s post about the stolen Google and Gmail passwords, one of our valued subscribers wrote back asking why it isn’t Google’s fault that the passwords were stolen.