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Generate Secure Passwords in Safari with iCloud Keychain for Mac OS X

Dec 17, 2013 - 16 Comments
iCloud Keychain

iCloud Keychain is a password management feature that arrived to the Mac with Mac OS X Mavericks, and to the mobile Apple world with iOS 7 and remains available in all modern system software releases. Basically it stores encrypted passwords securely within iCloud, which can then be accessed securely through your Mac or iOS device, … Read More

Recover a Lost Encrypted Backup Password for an iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch

Jun 26, 2013 - 33 Comments
Recover a lost iPhone encrypted backup password

iOS devices can use an optional encrypted backup feature that protects all backups with a strong encryption layer and password, meaning those backups are both unusable and unreadable without that password. If you chose to encrypt the backups of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with such a password and then somehow forgot the password … Read More

How To Retrieve Forgotten Web Site & Browser Passwords in Mac OS X via Command Line

Apr 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Allow security to retrieve a password from keychain

You can retrieve forgotten website and browser passwords by using a command line tool in Mac OS X. This is a handy feature that gives you access to the Keychain via Terminal. How many times have you forgotten the password to a website? Don’t feel bad because it happens to the best of us. The … Read More

Test Password Strength & Generate Strong Passwords in Mac OS X

Aug 8, 2012 - 6 Comments
Test Password Strength & Generate Secure Passwords in Mac OS X

Mac OS X includes a great built-in utility that helps you test existing password strength, and also generate new strong passwords. If you’re wondering if your password is secure this is a great safe way to test the quality of it, and it’s also a safe way to create new strong passwords that you know … Read More

Copy Keychain Logins & Passwords from One Mac to Another

Jul 5, 2012 - 21 Comments
Copy stored Keychain logins and passwords to a new Mac

Most Mac users are best served by using the easy Migration Assistant tool to copy all files, folders, preferences, and login data from one computer to another. This isn’t always an option though, perhaps because a hard drive is failing, or maybe you just prefer to manually migrate only very specific data from an old … Read More

Mac Apps Not Remembering Passwords? Fix Quickly By Repairing Keychain Access

Mar 15, 2012 - 8 Comments
Repair Keychain Access

Is Safari no longer remembering logins and passwords? Is Mail.app asking for a password every time you launch the app and try to check or send mail, despite the fact that you’ve entered login credentials over and over? When a Mac app no longer remembers password and login data, it’s often the result of corrupted … Read More

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