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How Does Dashlane Navigate the Annual Apple Cycle?
Every year, Apple releases a new version of each operating system running on their devices and the accompanying developer tools. Most of you will be familiar with iOS and macOS, but there are also updates for tvOS and watchOS. This annual cycle has been going on for over a decade. If you want to develop […]
“Searching” Movie: Hyper-Modern Thriller Demonstrates Why Everyone Should Rethink Digital Behavior
In a first for Dashlane, we’re excited to announce that we’re partnering with the new movie Searching as the film’s official digital safety partner. In select theaters today and everywhere August 31st, Searching is a hyper-modern thriller that follows a father who must trace his daughter’s digital footprints before she disappears forever. The film is […]
Reddit Was Hacked: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Reddit, which bills itself as the front page of the internet, fell victim to one of the internet’s oldest and most pressing issues: hacking. Earlier today, Reddit disclosed that “a hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database containing […]
Dashlane 6 Is Solving the Digital Identity Crisis for a Safer Digital Future
We’re at a pivotal moment in digital identity. Life online has left behind a disorganized, unsecure trail of passwords, payments, personal information, emails, files, and more, that has led to massive breaches and data abuses—like the ones at Facebook, Equifax, and Exactis. These risks impact us all, and the problem is only getting worse. While protecting accounts […]
Engineering and Product at Dashlane: Meetups and Conferences Abound
I previously shared how having a culture of continuous learning is vital to the health and growth of our engineering team here at Dashlane. If we’re not learning, we’re stagnating. One way this mindset manifests itself is in our investment in and dedication to sending engineers to conferences and hosting engineering Meetups in our Paris office. Attending […]
Dashlane’s CEO on Why You Should Be Concerned About Your Data
Data privacy is a red-hot topic nowadays. Between the massive Equifax breach, the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal, and all of the publicity generated by the European Union’s new GDPR legislation, now is as good a time as any to dive into the state of data privacy in America. Earlier this month, security researcher Vinny Troia says he […]
10 Million People Globally Use Dashlane to Manage Passwords
We’re excited to announce a thrilling milestone in the growth of our company: 10 million Dashlane users around the globe. Dashlane has become the standard for easily creating, protecting, and managing strong passwords and quickly auto-filling forms. To date, Dashlane has performed 1.6 billion auto-logins and filled out nearly 3 billion online forms, saving users from […]
Dashlane Uncovers Troubling Password Patterns
Virginia Tech and Dashlane Analysis Find Risky, Lazy Passwords the Norm Dashlane analyzed over 61 million passwords and uncovered some troubling password patterns. The analysis was conducted with research provided by Dr. Gang Wang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech project, described as “the first large-scale […]
Dashlane’s Advanced Alerts: A Look Behind the Curtain
Building on Ziad Bizri’s previous post about how we upgraded our back-end alerts system, we explore what we do when we want to create more advanced alerts. How We Think About and Construct Advanced Alerts To illustrate how we create advanced internal alerts to help us learn about how Dashlane is working, presume we work […]
Introducing the Dashlane Status Page
We’re excited to announce the Dashlane Status Page. This page represents our commitment to transparency—one of Dashlane’s core values—and to reliability, which is a critical component of our users’ experience. Dashlane is a truly global product, serving nearly 10 million customers and over 7,000 businesses in 150 countries across platforms and devices. We know that […]
World Password Day: How to Improve Your Passwords
May 4th was World Password Day (#WorldPasswordDay). It’s a global initiative originated by Intel and championed by Dashlane to tackle the number 1 problem in the digital world—passwords. As one of the leading password managers in the industry, we wanted to take this time make an international public service announcement: World, we have a password problem. […]
How Dashlane Upgraded Its Back-End Alerts System
When Dashlane’s User Support team contacted me to tell me that our users couldn’t create accounts, I felt like an idiot. I am, after all, in charge of Dashlane’s back-end systems. But when I looked at the monitoring we set up, I saw that all our instances were healthy, the load balancers were in good […]