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Friday, September 02, 2022

How to create better passwords without much effort Fast Company

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”


Fast Company: “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you should use a different password for every account you have, and each of those passwords should be an extraordinarily long and complex string of characters that are easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess. Unfortunately, that’s solid advice and equally unfortunately, it’s hacking season. And even more unfortunate, still: hacking season never ends. However, there are two pretty lazy but secure methods to ensure you’re using sufficiently strong passwords. Here they are…”

How to create better passwords without much effort Fast Company






WSJ: “Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are increasingly sought by criminals looking to either steal them or use them to launder illicit gains, a new report from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said on Wednesday. 

More than $100 million worth of these blockchain-based assets were reported stolen in scams over the past year, according to the study. Over 4,600 NFTs were stolen in July, the most in any month since Elliptic began tracking the data in 2017, the report said. Since that year, over $8 million in proceeds from illicit activities has been laundered through platforms that facilitate the creation, buying and selling of NFTs, the report said. 

Another $328 million that went through the platforms came from so-called obfuscation services, such as mixers that enable users to exchange cryptocurrencies with relative anonymity, and may also include illegally made money, the report said…”

WSJ - Report – NFTs Are Increasingly Targeted by Criminals


Ugly Adelaide Houses: the Instagram page calling out Adelaide’s most questionable abodes

From unibrow-inspired awnings to a tennis star’s former home, some of Adelaide’s “questionable abodes” are proving that beauty is in the eye of the homeowner.