Here is what you need to do if your online accounts are being hacked. Install and run Malwarebytes. You don’t need to pay for it, but you do need to run it to make sure you don’t have any malware on your computer that is stealing your passwords. Use a different web browser. If you …
It’s not every day I come across something so wrong about password managers that it moves me to write a response. Michael Horowitz writes the article in question, you can read it here The main point of the article is that password managers are bad, and using formula based passwords are good. I’ve already done …
Who do you trust more? 200 websites to store your passwords or yourself? If you’re not using a password manager, you’re trusting 200 websites* to secure your same or similar passwords. This is like living in a neighborhood where everyone’s house keys are the same. It’s only a matter of time before one house key …
Since the topic of salting your passwords was such a huge hit, I figured I should go into more detail on how to do it. If you never heard of salting your passwords, I covered it in my post on how to trust a password manager and The Mac Observer like the idea so much …
Read moreSalting Your Passwords In Your Password Manager: How-To Guide
What keeps people from using a password manager is the classic dilemma of “putting all your eggs in one basket“. Let me show you that keeping all your passwords in one basket is more logical then what you’re already doing. Would You Rather… To explain my point, we need to play a game of “would …
If you’ve had an account breached or guilty of reusing passwords you will find yourself needing to know what other accounts you signed up for so you can change the passwords to them too. The problem you’ll run into is that there is not one place that stores all the usernames or emails you used …