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Shortened URL - Security Risk or Rewards

URL Shortening Shortened URLs  offers several benefits by playing a vital role in digital marketing by  transforing lengthy URL into short and simple URL which can be shared on social media, blogs, emails and more. It is a technique that will redirect your short URL to specific website of your choice.  How ever short URLs produced by services like bit.ly and goo.gl, can be brute-forced.  And searching random shortened URLs could yield all sorts of secret documents. Plus, many of them can be edited, and can be infected with malware. Below image depicts the technique used by shortened URLs

Thinking Information Security is Someone's Job

There are lot of buzz words related to cyber security in terms of technology, processes and regulations in terms of compliance but very less is talked about the people i.e. human factor.  moreover it's the people who use these technologies and data, who develops and follow these processes and regulations and hence its utmost important element in this trilogy PPT (People Process Technology).

What is Password Manager?

Why do we need a password manager? Today is the world of social media, online business trading, online banking hence creation of different password became a necessasity and remembering them become nightmare. Writing these passwords on pieee of paper and pasting those paper on desk became a common practice which became easy target for cyber criminals to sucessfuly launch cyber attack, credential theft, financial fraud etc. Having a universal user name and password is impossible .  As every site or service has its own password requirements and hence its practically it is hard to keep track of all your different passwords.  Help improve security posture by providing a secure way for password storage rather than storing passwords in plain text compromising security posture.  It’s unreasonable to expect any person to remember complex passwords.  Its better to have something rather than nothing.  A Password Manager is a software application that allows users to securely store and organize pa