Podcast Ep. 02 – CrashPlan shutting down personal plans.
Yesterday one of the leading cloud backup service providers, CrashPlan, announced it was ending support for its consumer level plans. CrashPlan for Home will be shut down as of October 23, 2018. Current CrashPlan for home users will receive an extra 60 days of backup service for free. No new signups or renewals are being processed. CrashPlan still has a Business service and are suggesting home users move to Carbonite with a discount for the…
Password advice for 2017
I’ve written several posts over the past few years on passwords. In particularly my post on password strategy remains just as relevant now as when I wrote it several years ago. the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently updated its guidelines on creating secure passwords and it made some fairly significant changes. The main change was to remind user on the importance of password length and less on included special characters etc. From an…
Backing up your cloud service files
Cloud Sync services like Dropbox, Onedrive or are great for keeping files synced and available across multiple devices and the web. However they should not considered as a backup tool. By it’s very function “sync” means that it is designed to keep files in sync across all platforms. This includes any changes including delation you may do to those files. There has been many examples of people accidentally or because of a virus deleting all…