![]() Or maybe there was a breach in which case the damage is limited to the affected site. If a site says my username and password combination is wrong it probably means it is wrong. Thanks to that, I have rarely needed to click on the forgotten password button these past five years or so. Whenever I visit the site or open the app again LastPass either automatically fills in the username or password field or prompts me for the master password before it does so depending on your settings and how well you trust the computer. With a click of the button, the encrypted version of my password is saved into LastPass’ vault. The same happens when I log into a service for which there is no stored password or I use a new username-password combination. LastPass automatically prompts me to save the password in its cloud vault. Every time I sign up and generate a password, LastPass includes a handy password generator that comes with options that I can change to suit the finicky needs of that particular site, like my bank which only accepts letters and numbers or my cloud services providers with strict 16 character password requirements with a set minimum for letters, numbers and other characters. I then use unique generated and equally complex passwords for all the sites that require me to log in. At any given time I just need to remember one very complex password that would be very difficult to crack. ![]() ![]() I discovered LastPass in 2015 and it has been a blast. I have never had to do neither for the past six years. This means spending half your life clicking that “forgot password button” You attempt to be a security-conscious ninja and try to use, at the very least, a unique password for each service that you use.You either defy basic security advice and reuse username and password for various unrelated and sometimes related services or.Memory is often fickle, so when it comes to usernames and passwords you have two options both of them unpalatable: If you are a free tier user you will only be able to use LastPass on one device type. ![]() Yesterday LogMeIn Inc, the company behind the very popular password manager and 2FA authenticator LastPass made a very sad announcement that is going to have some pretty profound effects on internet security in general for a lot of people, Zimbabweans included. ![]()
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