A lot of the advice people are given about making a strong password is complete garbage. Making a strong or secure password is stupidly simple, so if someone tells you some complex hoopla, you can ignore them as they’re just making things worse. Let me show you how to make a strong password. How To …
It blows my mind that all these websites that talk about the most secure password managers on the market never seem to talk about the actual most secure password manager. To be honest, the most secure password manager today is free, so I’m guessing that is why so many refuse to talk about it, as …
If you’re not paying for it, then you’re the product. Or, at least, that is what they say. It’s this slogan that makes people question free password managers. It’s a fair criticism, but it’s missing many contexts that matter. So let’s answer the question, are free password managers safe? Why Do We Have Free Password …
I don’t know where the idea that it’s bad to write down your passwords came from, but it needs to stop. The average person has over 100 passwords they need to manage and expecting them to remember them is impossible. Also, the problem is not that you write passwords down but what passwords you use. …
If your passwords keep changing and you’re not doing it, there are a few things you need to do right away. To fix this problem, you’ll need to do things below in the order they come. 1. Scan For Malware Your password could be changing because your computer is infected with malware. Even if you …
I’ve been getting a lot of comments from all over the place asking, or even telling me, that using words in passwords is bad. The typical answer they tell me is that words in passwords are vulnerable to dictionary attacks. There is so much to unpack here, but in general, it’s okay to use dictionary …