mySafeBox

Google with it’s services ranging from checkouts to personal emails to your office document. It might, very soon, be synonymous for anything online, similar to a search. I wouldn’t be surprised, if someday, the netizens start using terms like googline, googleb and so on. Okay, may be the words sound too bad but after all its google – the Big G, who knows what it brings next. And as a part of an active online community, I use each and every Google provided service and that brings me to a very interesting point and of course the reason of this article.
I do realize that I’ve used a scary title to this entry. Why? Because Google is making me feel vulnerable to security threats online. How? With its ease of use that allows me to access every Google service without being asked for my userid and password. All I’ve to do is login in to my Gmail account and after that I can access any google service as if it’s the same application. Anyone can argue what’s the problem, it being such a nice and cool feature but you will realize if you consider your online security important.
Let me start with a simple scenario – Say, I use a shared computer in an internet cafe, I access my Gmail account and accidentally selected the “Remember me” option while signing in and forgot to click the logout option. I close the browser and went home. I know what you are thinking now, my Gmail account is gone because the next guy who uses gmail, after I did, will see all my emails without being asked to login and can do anything he wants with my email account. I know it’s unfortunate and my email account is compromised. But wait, there’s more – my Google calendar is exposed, my spreadsheets are gone, my personal information is compromised, my Google Checkout is in risk and much more. Long story short, if some how, some one knows my Gmail password, he or she can access every Google service that I’ve been using from personal to finances with almost no effort.

Arguably, Google is trying to make it easy for us to use its services with a one time login. However, getting prompted to sign in before using any service is far better than living under the fear of losing your important information. I would still consider keeping up with a passwords and login ids, a smart choice, compared to something which can potentially compromise my personal and financial information.
www.mySafeBox.com

mySafeBox is the first online access control management that uses the power of it’s user’s creativity to secure the data. Using mySafeBox means – no installation, no giving all your personal information, no passwords on post-it notes and no risk and best of all it’s acessible from anywhere 24X7. That means mySafeBox will be there for you (like your mom) when you are digging through cabinets, unfiled papers to find that piece of paper on which you wrote the password, all while trying to log in to your old email account.
mySafeBox allows to you to store hints instead of actual user ids or passwords.So, for others it will look like a nice sentence but for you it will be your access reminder. However, that doesn’t mean the data stored in mySafeBox is not secure. Your mySafeBox account can only be accessed by you and no one else. The password is encrypted and can’t even be viewed by mySafeBox admins.
mySafeBox helps you organize you access controls for all your favorite websites, your common services like water and gas companies and your other online profiles. You can also download you access list anytime in a PDF format.
The AJAX based interface makes you feel as if you have installed a software on to your desktop, you can quickly create new categories, add new list to the categories, edit items in the list – virtually in seconds.
Love using right clicks ? mySafeBox gives you all the menu options in the right click. Want to quickly edit an entry – mySafeBox has inplace edit feature to let you edit your details without having to edit the entire item.
So, what are you waiting for ? Just go to www.mysafebox.com and start organizing your important information for both trivial and non trivial sites. Don’t forget to read the faq section to learn more about mysafebox.

Strong passwords are vital to help keep your online life safe and secure. Strong passwords can be easily created by the definition, which says “Strong passwords have – both upper and lower case letters, numbers and/or punctuation characters as well as letters and are seven or eight characters long”. However, the real challenge comes when using them, only after then you realize, it’s even easier to forget them. So, you should always create a password which is both strong and easier to remember. But, the question is how to do you make an ideal password. Here are some tips that can help you create better passwords :

• Create an acronym from something personal to you or your family, or something meaningful to you . For the sentence : “My 2 year old cat’s name is Lucy” ; the corresponding password can be “M2yrocniL”. You can always make a practice of adding some special characters at some fixed location. So, after applying the trick, the final password may look like : “M2yrocniL#” or “#M2yrocniL”.
• Pick a word or serveral words but omit the vowels and add numbers and special characters. For “mysafebox rocks” , the password can be created as “my5fbx+rck5″ and when added a special character, the password can be “my5fbx+rck5#” or “#my5fbx+rck5″.
• Create an acronym from a known sequence, like “If you are happy and you know” ; the corresponding password can be created as “!furhappy&un0″.
• Use this conversion trick to come up with a strong password which is easier to remember : a=@, b=6, e=3, i=1 (or !), l=1 (or l=!), o=0, s=5 (or s=$), t=+, and so on. Applying this tip – a password like “mysafebox” can be converted to “my5@f360X” which is a strong password that is easy to remember.

References:
Excellent article on password:here

This blog is dedicated to various topics that can help create better passwords and efficient access management.

Welcome to mySafeBox.com. Your one point source for better user id and password management.
Here is a list of few items that mySafeBox can manage:

• Logins and passwords for websites.
• Access to your Service comapanies like power, gas, phone etc
• Access codes to e-mail accounts.
• Cellular phone PIN codes.
• Access codes to computer accounts.
• Passwords for files which are password protected
• Passwords for ISPs.

And much more… All without using your real account details.