If you know me, then you know that I take security seriously. And so should you.
By using for example only one password to log into everything (I have seen it happen) you have the problem that once your password has been compromised someone can completely take over your personal and maybe even business identities, lock you our of your accounts, steal your identity and make your life miserable for a long time to come.
And it’s not *that* hard to get hacked. It happens all them time. Just one of the sites you use maybe saves it in an unsecured format and gets hacked. You don’t even have to get personally involved to get hacked. So it doesn’t help if you are “careful” and don’t write it down.
There is a website where you can check if any of your accounts at other websites have been reported as compromised: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
It is not fully comprehensive since not every site reports a breach, but it does list the major ones. Just enter your e-mail address and press the “pwned?” button.
The best approach is to use each password only on one site. Easy as that. One lost password only means one problem to deal with. What…you can’t remember 68 distinct passwords that have 10 jumbled up characters? Neither can I. Continue reading “Password Managers”
