1Password 3.9.6 and the Sandbox
In September, 1Password 3.9 was one of the first Mac apps to be sandboxed. It used a single temporarily exception read-write entitlement to enable access to the user’s Dropbox folder, thus annoying...
View Article1Password for iOS 4.1 URL Schemes
Federico Viticci: The URL scheme for opening websites is far more useful for me. You can prepend “op” to a normal Safari URL (so it’ll look something like “ophttp://”) to open it directly into...
View Article1Password 4.0 Preview
Dan Moren: The app’s under-the-hood implementation has seen some updates as well, with a re-architected browser extension that’s written in native Cocoa. AgileBits promises that the extension is...
View Article1Password and the Crypto Wars
AgileBits: It is impossible to absolutely prove that our answers to the easy questions above are truthful. But what I can do is provide a number of more verifiable claims, each of which makes it harder...
View Article1Password 4
1Password 4 is now available, with some great new features like multiple vaults, 1Password mini, security audit, favorites, and a better browser extensions user interface. I still don’t really like the...
View Article1Password Watchtower
Agile Bits: Earlier this month, we introduced our new Watchtower service on the web. In its initial version, Watchtower checks whether a website is (or ever was) vulnerable to the internet’s nasty...
View ArticleThe Power of iOS 8
Ole Begemann: Hereʼs why iOS 8 is a big deal. As an example, consider one of my favorite iOS apps, 1Password. Assume you want to sign in to a web site in Mobile Safari and your login credentials are...
View Article1Password App Extensions
AgileBits: The video embedded here, produced by our fearless co-founder Dave Teare, speaks for itself. Thanks to Apple’s incredible new developer features in iOS 8, third-party apps can let 1Password...
View Article1Password 5: Touch ID and Safari/App Extensions
As I said, I was really excited about this. So far, it has not quite worked out the way I expected. The Safari extension prompts me for my master password every single time, even though I have set the...
View Article1Password 5.1 and Touch ID Changes
The 1Password 5.1 update seems to improve the situation with Touch ID. Most significantly, storing the master password in the iOS keychain seems to work now, whereas before I was often prompted to type...
View Article1pass
1pass is an open-source Python library for reading 1Password’s .agilekeychain file format (via Jonathan Wight).
View ArticleCloudKit
John Siracusa: CloudKit isn’t just the network data storage API that developers have always wanted from Apple; apparently it’s also the API that Apple has always wanted for itself. Both iCloud Drive...
View Article1Password mini Shortcuts
AgileBits: What might seem like one of the smallest new features in 1Password 5 for Mac is actually one of its biggest. We completely redesigned it so you can find what you need more easily, but we...
View Article1Password 5.2 for iOS and 5.1 for Mac
Agile Bits: For our Pro feature owners, let’s start with a new One-Time Password tool. This helps you sign into a growing number of services (like Amazon and Tumblr) that support a secondary,...
View ArticleIP Box Unlocks iPhone By Brute Force
MDSec (via John Gruber): Although we’re still analyzing the device it appears to be relatively simple in that it simulates the PIN entry over the USB connection and sequentially bruteforces every...
View Article1Password 5.3 for Mac
Chris De Jabet: We recently introduced our TOTP feature — Time-Based One-Time Passwords — in iOS and Windows, and now we’re bringing it to the Mac. TOTPs are increasingly used as an extra layer of...
View ArticleXARA: Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access
Darren Pauli (comments): Six university researchers have revealed deadly zero-day flaws in Apple’s iOS and OS X, claiming it is possible to crack Apple’s password-storing keychain, break app sandboxes,...
View ArticleMacUpdate Adware Installers
Thomas Reed: Following Mr. Urdaneta’s hints, I sought out the Skype page on the MacUpdate site and downloaded the app. The result was a file named Skype Installer.dmg, which seems legit on first...
View ArticleCloudKit JS
AgileBits: CloudKit is still the way that developers access the iCloud database, but Apple has provided a brand new way of accessing their CloudKit servers: CloudKit web services. CloudKit web services...
View ArticleThe Futility of Pleasing All Users
Khoi Vinh: This is a fine idea, but when I upgraded, I was surprised to find that the new “All Vaults” view is the default view. Even when I selected a specific vault as my preferred view, the next...
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