Apart from email and social network websites, there are so many online accounts like Banking sites, shopping sites, cloud storage, product websites and more.
An easy way is to set and remember an easy password to all your accounts. Right?
NO! WRONG!
Say for instance you set a password like 1234, Your name, Your Spouse's name, Your Kid's name or your date of birth.
This is what will happen, Hacker's first step is PREDICTING, Before trying the actual hacking with coding and stuff, they'll predict. If you keep easily predictable passwords like the ones mentioned above, Its a piece of cake they'll crack open your online account within a minute. Or worse if you have set the same password to all your other online accounts. All your data is out in the open in the hands of a Hacker who might sell it for money, extract your money if your online data contains sensitive data like BANKING & CREDIT CARD details. or ask you for a large amount of ransom. Even if you opt to pay and get back your data. How can you trust a hacker that he/she will give back your data?
The best way is to set a difficult and complex password with Different characters like; Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.
An easy way is to set and remember an easy password to all your accounts. Right?
NO! WRONG!
Say for instance you set a password like 1234, Your name, Your Spouse's name, Your Kid's name or your date of birth.
This is what will happen, Hacker's first step is PREDICTING, Before trying the actual hacking with coding and stuff, they'll predict. If you keep easily predictable passwords like the ones mentioned above, Its a piece of cake they'll crack open your online account within a minute. Or worse if you have set the same password to all your other online accounts. All your data is out in the open in the hands of a Hacker who might sell it for money, extract your money if your online data contains sensitive data like BANKING & CREDIT CARD details. or ask you for a large amount of ransom. Even if you opt to pay and get back your data. How can you trust a hacker that he/she will give back your data?
The best way is to set a difficult and complex password with Different characters like; Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.
Using a Password manager makes your life easier Where you don't have to remember all the passwords of all your online accounts. Your passwords are safely stored in a secured encrypted vault.
A password manager contains a lot of useful features like;
- Automatically promoting you to save username and passwords of your online accounts when the website/app is opened for the first time.
- Autofill feature will automatically fill in for you as you visit website/apps so you never need to enter your password manually.
- The free syncing feature will sync all your login credentials, anything saved on one device is available across the board to all your devices.
- Logging into your Password manager app can be authenticated with your fingerprint.
- Sharing your passwords safely and securely, such as cable login or WiFi password.
- With the built-in password generator, you can generate strong, long complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.
- Multifactor authentication secures your password vault to add a second layer of protection on your account.
There are two types of password manager.
An Offline Password Manager(Locally installed password manager) is an application installed on your computer or your smartphone. These applications are offline and don't need internet connectivity, but the downside of using an offline password manager is if something happens to your computer or your smartphone, like, if you had to reinstall the firmware in critical conditions where you can't even back up any of your data, your passwords are gone and you can't retrieve your passwords.
An Online Password Manager (Web-based password manager) is a website on an application where you can store all your passwords which will be stored in an encrypted vault.
The advantage of an online password manager is all your passwords will be available across the board in all your devices and if something happens to your device when the data is irrecoverable your passwords won't be lost.
BONUS TIP:
This is my personal tip and how I use Password managers,
Don't save your e-mail login credentials in your password manager. Since a password manager is created by a guy and his company is run by a lot of employees the chances of security is still in their hands. Yeah it is stored in an encrypted vault and chances of compromising is very slim, but still, there are chances of the data breach, and this encryption is created by the guy running a company or his employee if he created the encryption he'd be having the decryption code.
So my reason to not to save the email credentials is simple if you forget or you're locked out of your online account the email acts as the host where you get the links to recover your passwords. So that way even if any of my accounts are compromised or worst case scenario my password manager is hacked or there is a data breach in the password manager company. I can always reset all my password with the host e-mail account.
Normally A password manager's marketing is done with quotes like "forget all other passwords" or "remember just the one password'
My tip is to remember two passwords, Your E-mail, and your Password Manager's passwords.
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