Posts Tagged ‘password manager’

protection against hacking

my Instagram account got hacked this week. Besides the nasty revamp of my profile (lude), being forced to change password and my account being blocked for that many days, the most painful part was having to manually unfollow 500+ users.

Here are useful steps to prevent such mishaps:

4 things you should be doing right now so you won’t get hacked

http://www.businessinsider.com/hacking-protection-2016-2

More info in this IMS blog on LastPass and password management:

password management

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How and why to set up and use a password manager

Commit to a password manager to make your online life easier and more secure.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-and-why-to-set-up-and-use-a-password-manager/

A password manager stores the passwords for your various online accounts and profiles and saves you from having to remember and enter each one each time you visit a password-protected site. Instead, your passwords are encrypted and held by your password manager, which you then protect with a master password. Since you are saved from having to remember all of your passwords, you will be less tempted by the dangerously poor idea of using the same password for all of your accounts. With a password manager, you can create strong passwords for all of your accounts and keep all of those passwords saved behind a stronger master password, leaving you to remember but a single password.

With PasswordBox, you can sign up for an account via its mobile app or the PasswordBox website on a computer. I chose the latter and downloaded PasswordBox from its website, which turned out to be a browser extension.