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Question from Jennifer: I have a question about pop-ups asking if I want to save the password when I log in to a website.
I never say Yes and want to disable those pop-ups. How do I disable them?
Yes, using a Password Manager is still just as dangerous as ever
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m not a fan of password managers because using one is like placing all of your eggs (i.e. your entire digital life) into one fragile basket.
Think about it for a moment. If the passwords to all of your online accounts are stored in a single database, what happens if that database is somehow breached by hackers?
That’s right – the hackers will have immediate and full access to your entire digital life!
The companies behind the most popular password manager apps and services go to great lengths to explain how their products safeguard your passwords and the precious stored data and information they protect.
Truth be told, they really do put in a great effort to make their products as secure as possible. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really matter. Here’s why… [Read more…]
How to view every password Google is storing for you
Did you know Google keeps a record of all the passwords you have stored in your Chrome browser and your signed-in Android devices right on their website?
Well, they do, and there’s an easy way to view all of those stored passwords at one time. That makes it easy to quickly retrieve a password that you might have forgotten. [Read more…]
How to create really secure passwords that are easy to remember
One of the most difficult tasks in computing is choosing a password that is both hard for hackers to crack and easy to remember.
It’s quite quite easy to do one or the other, but doing both at the same time can be a headache. But it doesn’t have to be.
Lots of folks rely on password managers to help keep their online accounts secure, but I don’t recommend that because using a password manager puts your entire digital life at risk.
The good news is you don’t need to use a password manager in order to create extremely secure (and unique) passwords for each of your online accounts – and remember easily them!
This post explains how to do just that. [Read more…]
Think password managers are safe? Truth be told, they’re quite dangerous.
Many of the web’s most widely respected tech experts recommend using a password manager such as KeePass to store all of your online passwords. I don’t recommend them however, and after reading this post you will understand why.
A typical password manager will store all of your passwords in an encrypted database. In order to “open” the database to extract a needed password you’ll have to enter a master password.
This sounds like a great idea for storing and protecting a bunch of unique passwords without having to remember them all, and the concept is indeed a great one. But unfortunately it is seriously flawed. Here’s why: [Read more…]