How To Protect Your Quicken Data from All Your Programs

By now, I hope you’re aware that all of your programs can access your Quicken data. If you don’t care if your data is lost, destroyed, stolen, or published on the Internet, then you don’t have anything to worry about. For the rest of us, it’s an issue that needs to be addressed immediately. Here’s […]

October 6th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, How To, Isolation, Quicken, Security | 2 comments

How to Implement Security Sandboxes

You may not know it, but ALL your programs can access your Quicken data. Not good. So, what can you do?

One solution to this nasty problem is to run all programs in a security sandbox. Unfortunately, the sandboxes in Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) are voluntary. Programmers can choose to […]

September 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, How To, Quicken, Security | Leave a comment

All Your Programs Can Access Your Quicken Data

Note: The issue discussed on this page affects you if you use Windows or Mac OS X, unless you have taken the following precautions:

For Windows: You are running Windows 8 or later, and only purchase and run programs from the Windows App store. For Mac OS X: You are running Mountain Lion (10.8) or […]

September 22nd, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, Software, Quicken, Security | Leave a comment

Security Concerns with Quicken

Suppose you run Quicken. You enter your checkbook balance, and some checks that haven’t cleared the bank. Then, you enter the password for your online account at the bank, and download your checking account history and/or your credit card history.

Now that you have synchronized your computer with your bank, Intuit (the makers of Quicken) […]

September 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, Passwords, Software, Isolation, Quicken, Security | Leave a comment

Security Sandboxes: A Great Reason to Upgrade

The main reason to upgrade is that the newer versions of Windows and Mac OS X implement something called a security sandbox.

Suppose you get hungry, and want a recipe for a sandwich. So, you download some recipe software, install it, download a recipe for a sandwich, and make yourself a sandwich. If you accidentally […]

September 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, Software, Isolation, Quicken, Security | Leave a comment