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my1login - Cloud Password Management

Details: Category: Technical Product Reviews

Manufacturer: My1login Limited| Model: Business | Origin: Scotland, UK | Website: www.my1login.com | Price: £15/month for up to 10 users with a free option

Simplicity	Value	Documentation
5/5	4/5	4/5
Functionality	Performance	Overall
4/5	5/5	88%

The Good
Reasonably priced for businesses, fast, simple with effective authentication options.

The Bad
The negative points already have fixes on the roadmap like: iPhone and Android applications, desktop software and true two factor authentication.

Conclusion
A cost effective, quick, universal and simple way of storing passwords securely, as well as strengthening up existing logins, by generating a new strong random password. Unlike most other online passwords stores this originates within the UK, so has slightly better privacy than US rivals. Perfect for all sizes of businesses, due to the user management options, as well as home users. Coming this year are new features to improve my1login mobile, desktop and security wise. my1login is the easiest to use and has the best security specification of a password management store I have seen.

OpenSSL Heartbleed: Expert On Criminal and Government Theories

Details: Category: Blog

News of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, which has emerged over the last 48 hours, is arguably one of the most significant developments in the history of the website security industry. The likes of Target, Sony and TK Maxx have all made waves over the past few years, but whereas these were all incidents of a single company being breached, OpenSSL Heartbleed has potentially affected millions of websites.

OpenSSL is the technology behind the TLS/SSL protocol (or padlock icon) that many of us take as a sign of trustworthiness and reputability when browsing the internet. The OpenSSL Heartbleed bug allows unauthorised users to extract data from the server’s memory, 64,000 characters of it to be precise. This could contain usernames, passwords, encryption keys or even credit card information.

Companies Exposed As 5 in 6 AntiVirus Solutions Fail To Identify Threats

Details: Category: Blog

London UK, Monday 24th March 2014 – Businesses across the globe are becoming dangerously exposed to increasing cyber threats as almost 85% of the world's leading AntiVirus solutions are constantly failing to identify emerging threats.

With an increasing level of technological solutions becoming implemented across the everyday operations of businesses everywhere, cyber-crime is quickly becoming the most prevalent risk to companies, their data, assets and customers. With leading AntiVirus vendors providing an inadequate level of protection for both individuals and businesses alike, the risk to company and client data is being left open to compromise on a daily basis.