Adding Third Party Application

I have activated two steps verification on my GMail and soon after that, i couldn't access my GMail account through my phone. I just realized that some third party applications hasn't supported this feature yet, so they need a special treatment.

GMail provides application spesific password which can be generated by going to your Google Profile and pick the two steps verification and go to the bottom of the page. Please give a name to the new device or application that you want to be connected to your GMail and it will generate OTP (one time password) that you should enter on your device/application. After re-authenticating, everything works normally again.

I hope this helps for those who have activated two steps verifications. It's a little bit uncomfortable at first, but when you get used to it, you will get the security benefit out of it.

Google Chrome 17 Arrived

After Mozilla released Firefox 10, Google team didn't just sit and wait. They released a new major version of Google Chrome 17 with bunch of new features, just as expected. This version brings improvements on performance and also security.

Some of the new features in this release are:

• Page pre-rendering in the background as you type the address
• Better Safe Browsing implementation to secure user's system

For detailed changes, please visit Google Chrome releases

Do You Need to Crack Password?

I have no idea what's inside the officer's head about his idea which is considered so careless. Take a look on the screenshot below, taken from F-Secure Blog: