Norton Identity Safe Remembers Your Passwords So You Don't Have To
Norton Identity Safe Remembers Your Passwords So You Don't Have To
Posted 01/31/2012 at 7:57am
| by Paul Lilly
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You're not a rookie on the Internet anymore so it's inexcusable to lock down your online accounts with weaksauce passwords. We're sure your girlfriend's fly, but using her name as a password is a poor security practice, and so is using any of the commonly recognized passwords out there, like 123456 and iloveyou, to name just two. If you're serious about security, you're using multiple passwords that are difficult to guess, which can also be difficult to remember. Symantec wants to help.
Symantec today released the public beta of Norton Identity Safe, a free, cloud-enabled service intended to securely store and synchronize logins, passwords, credit card details, and other Web form information across browsers and devices.
"Today, consumers are faced with trying to remember numerous logins and passwords in order to access their favorite websites, without putting their personal information at risk," Symantec explains. "According to Norton research, 38 percent of people surveyed still write down their passwords. Forty-five percent re-use the same passwords across multiple sites, leaving them open to risk as hackers may crack the password on one site and gain access to all of their accounts. To help consumers solve these problems, Norton Identity Safe beta provides a simple, secure way to manage passwords across Windows PCs, iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad, and Android devices."
If the idea of handing over your passwords and credit card numbers to Symantec to store in the cloud doesn't scare the pants off of you, you'll be freed from having to remember multiple logins and just need to keep track of a single master password. The service also supports automatic login synchronization across devices, so you can store a password on your iPad and login from your Galaxy S II.
To help keep your data secure, Norton Identity Safe beta includes Norton Safe Web protection, which analyzes websites looking for potential security risks.
You can download the Norton Identity Safe beta program here. Note that if you already have Norton Internet Security or Norton 360, there's no need to download Norton Identity Safe -- you already have it installed.
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jerryfrost
January 31, 2012 at 8:01pm
my friend's step-aunt makes $84 hourly on the computer. She has been fired for 9 months but last month her income was $8799 just working on the computer for a few hours. Go to this web site and read more linkpot.net/flurrying/
Phrish
January 31, 2012 at 5:09pm
I've found my killer password manager with SBSH Safewallet:
http://www.sbsh.net/password-manager-safewalletHere's a sort of user review I did on it:
http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?/topic/28864-safewallet-a-users-review/Cheers.
tugboat_2
January 31, 2012 at 3:38pm
Why would you store all your encryption keys to all your personal data on someone else's computer????
Think about it. Can you at least. Personally verify the physical security protocols for the servers they use? Mmmmm
And are you knowledgeable enough to confirm how robust their program encryption is??? Mmmmm
Have you personally verified the integrity of the company/employees for being secuity risks or being outright on some criminal's payroll???? Mmmm
To my knowledge there has not been any class of business/government entity that has not been hacked or betrayed by an employee.
Personally, I think all this cloud storage stuff is nothing but a disaster waiting to happen for someone. I fully understand the convenience of, say 2 or 3 offices, corraborating on a basically non-secure report or project, then dumping it. I mean how can you even know where in the world the servers are even located.
I have always used a paid password mngr. I have never had a problem and I keep the actual passwords on a thumb drive and back them up to 2nd at least weekly. Every account has at least a 10 character password and no two accounts the same. Hey it's so stupid easy even I can do it. Never lost a password and that has been over several years and several computers.
JohnP
January 31, 2012 at 1:54pm
Hey, has anyone seen a RSA token generator that works with a home computer? I am thinking of Blizzards authenticator but for a password safe...
win7fanboi
January 31, 2012 at 2:10pm
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/the-rsa-hack-how-they-did-it/
IIAbeII
January 31, 2012 at 11:54am
Isn't using Keepass with Dropbox exactly the same thing, excluding the fact that everyone's passwords would be in the same place?
Zoandar
January 31, 2012 at 10:42am
Well, hell, as long as it uses Norton Safe Web Protection it MUST be safe, right? Besides, they TOLD us it was safe. ;)
eain
January 31, 2012 at 9:20am
Norton is too big a target; people will always want to hack them.
Use Password Safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/; ports exist for OSX, Linux, iOS, and Android) and Dropbox.
wintercoder
January 31, 2012 at 8:16am
Yea... safe until a year from now, when we get a notice saying (like recently from Symantec), "Oops, DON'T use our software... someone stole the source code!"
win7fanboi
January 31, 2012 at 8:08am
Lastpass anyone? From what I understand they never get a copy of the stored passwords, only an encrypted blob. The blob gets decrypted over at the client machine. I have been using it for a while, although I still don't trust any password managers 100%. You can have MOST of your password for really sensitive stuff stored there, just leave out a few digits in the beginning or at the end of the password.
DDTechGuy
February 01, 2012 at 12:32pm
LastPass is free for most of its services; with a paltry $12 annual fee for full version (includes LastPass Mobile) which I'll bet is a lot less then Norton's product after free trial.
Also, reading the articles description of Norton's product, it sounds like they've just ripped off the exact same service that LastPass offers for free.
What am I missing here?
DDTG
FrancesTheMute
January 31, 2012 at 9:56am
Or Keepass, I've been using it for the past year or so, works good so far.
OliverSudden
January 31, 2012 at 8:03am
You're is only ever used if you mean to say you are.
That's the rule. It's really nothing more complicated than that.
The same is true of they're (they are) and we're (we are).
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