Password Manager Can Protect From Phishing Attacks
A password manager can protect you from scamming and phishing website attacks.
What is a password manager?
A password manager helps to log into different websites automatically. It stores your login information for all the trusted websites. All the password data is saved in the password database and they encrypt it with a master password. You don’t need to remember all the passwords.
Password reuse is a problem!
Every year many password leaks occur. Scammer, hacker and phishing websites make full use of it and try to misuse the information. If you use the same information everywhere then your important accounts are at great risk. What data is available to malicious websites with leaked information? They have your username, password, website name, and link. They can use the same combination of username and password and try to login to your different online accounts.
It is always better to keep changing your passwords frequently. And there comes the hassle of remembering new passwords. A password manager is useful as it can keep a record of all the passwords in an encrypted database. It also randomly generates secure, strong and complicated passwords. You can generate a new password as many times as you like. It remembers and stores your login information to a website. Next time when you visit the same website it will automatically fill in the login credentials. If any similar phishing website attacks you, then it will ask for login information and you would need to type in your username and password. You will be alert as you have already stored the login information to your trusted website and it will not require to ask for your username and password. Many such phishing attacks can be averted.
Why isn’t browser-based password manager ideal?
Browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and others have an inbuilt integrated password manager. These store unencrypted passwords on your computer’s hard drive. It lacks cross-platform syncing. A dedicated password manager will allow you to access the passwords on all your devices like computers, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones.
I personally like these!
I have used these password managers. You can try each one and see which one appeals to you.
Lastpass, Dashlane, Keepass, 1Password
You can store other types of data like — credit card numbers or secure notes in a secure form with a password manager. All data is encrypted with your master password.
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