How To Protect Your Passwords?

Passwords are necessary evils to protect important data but it is a chore trying to memorize all of them.

If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can copy all of your data onto an external drive and crack your files at their own time and leisure.

There is not much you can do if someone with the know-how hacks into your computer but you can prevent identity theft using password managers as recommended by Lifehacker: 

The only truly secure way to store your passwords is to use a password manager to securely track your passwords, combined with a a great master password to protect the rest of your saved passwords—if you use an easy password for your password manager, it would be easy to crack with a brute force attack.

Don’t lure yourself into a false sense of security by just using one—your password manager password should be at least 10 alpha-numeric characters if you really want to be secure.

You’ve got a number of great password managers to choose from, like reader favorite Keepass, a cross-platform tool which has many plugins that help you master your passwords and make using a password manager easier to deal with.

And, of course, let’s not forget that Firefox has a full password manager built right into the application.

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