House & Senate Unveil Password Access Bills

House and Senate Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a pair of bills to prevent employers from forcing workers or job seekers to turn over Facebook or other online passwords.

Where Password Management and the Social Web Meet - Announcing User Profiles

Combining Password Management with Social Networking is an awkward and tricky business. We here at Mitto have always held the privacy and security of our users as a foremost priority. Actually, it’s our core value and the reason we created Mitto! Nonetheless, one of Mitto’s core functionalities is the ability to share passwords between users. This is useful for businesses, organizations, teams and individuals  who need to securely share access to their online resources. Perhaps a web design firm needs to share FTP passwords between team members, or a fundraising boy scout troop needs to share access to their PayPal account. Mitto is the perfect and most secure way to handle this.

Up until now, while its always been possible to share your passwords, sites, and even your tags between users, we haven’t had a way to view the connections you have between yourself and other users. Therefore we are proud to announce user profiles in Mitto! These can be found under the people tab, and each user profile indicates the user’s contact info; how many passwords, sites, and tags they have in Mitto; and which items you share with them on Mitto.

You can set your profile up by going to the My Account section in Mitto, and clicking on the Profile tab.

In the future we will release new tools that will help you find your friends and colleagues on Mitto.

Mitto is your Cyber Monday Ally

Hey, e-Commerce commandos, Cyber Monday is almost upon us. Did you know that Mitto is not only the best tool to handle your security when logging on to your favorite online retailers, but it’s also a great way to get deals!

On Monday, many of you will be logging to Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, and countless other online retailers. By using your Mitto Bookmarklet or Browser Extension, you’ll be able to login quickly and safely, cutting down on the stress of having to remember your passwords to all of these websites (you do have different passwords for each of them, right?).

Also, by logging via Mitto we’ll use our deal scavenging resources to show you all the best deals available for any given retailer. It’s all just a click away. When you open your Mitto Bookmarklet or Browser Extension, just click on the Deals tab, and save money!

Happy Holiday Shopping Mitto users!

Longer Mitto Sessions on Private Computers

Most of our users start out their day by firing up their Mitto account, then logging into their various personal and professional web apps. As they continue through their routine they’ll come across the need  to log in to another of their web-based services using a Mitto Browser Extension or the Bookmarklet, but uh-oh –  they logged into Mitto an hour earlier, and now they have to re-login because their session has expired.

Well, not anymore! If you’ve logged into Mitto on a private computer, you can now adjust the amount of time your Mitto session will stay open before it expires. This means that if you at home or at work on your workstation, your Mitto session can stay open for as long as 6 hours without activity! This helps you stay productive.

All you need to do is login to your Mitto account, and access your account settings, by clicking “My Account” from the top menu. On the My Account Settings page, you’ll find the setting under Settings > Timeout for Private Sessions.

Mitto has always provided different lengths of time for user sessions depending on whether they were logged into a public or private computer. Sessions on public computers are much shorter, just 20 min. with the logic that you don’t want your Mitto account accessible to people on a public computer in case you walk away on forget to logout. Now you can customize your private sessions expiration time according to your security and productivity needs.

Zoom-Zoom is a go!

Everyday more and more people are signing up for Mitto to protect their digital lives and help them manage their passwords. In fact our users use Mitto to store logins for over 80,000 different websites.

It’s with this massive growth that we’re happy to announce the Zoom-Zoom Mitto upgrade. Zoom-Zoom is what we’ve been calling our lead developer’s effort to optimize our code base so that you can see speed increases in Mitto of up to 200%!

Although you won’t see any changes in the Mitto user interface, we’re sure that you’ll experience the speed boost, and benefit from the added stability of Mitto that ensures you can access your passwords quickly and reliably.

Now that we’ve dusted some of the cobwebs out of system, you can look forward to some additional new features and UI updates that we plan on rolling out in the near future.