Password security

With all the bank accounts and to a lesser degree, all other online accounts that people have these days, how does everyone keep track of all these different passwords while retaining their security?

Im in the process of bulking up my security and I’m finding it very difficult to set different passwords for everything whilst securely remembering them all and which one for which.

 

I started using 1Password for this exact reason late last year!

highly recommend as it is well regarded, generates unique passwords and has good reviews.

you can get free type versions of password vaults but in my belief, a lot of the time “nothing is ever free” just my opinion and probably scepticism?

 

Maybe you're approaching passwords the wrong way..... there are many systems you can use to make it simpler to remember but harder to crack.

Pass-phrases coupled with a logical to you structure / sequence that inserts a logic "key" for instance. The key might be a number or acronym or could be the logic sequence used to deconstruct password into parts with same logic but different values used for different passwords....

 

I had to do this recently. Was becoming a real problem with passwords being reused (danger). This is what I did - no doubt there are security nerds that have better solutions

I went with LastPass with 2 factor authentication (2FA …not sms). Turn 2FA on wherever you can. Google or Microsoft authenticators do the job. It’s a big step forward in security for minimal hassle.

You’ll only need to remember a few passwords or less then…I don’t keep financial and my email password on LastPass. Some people will just need to remember the master password.

 

Post it notes stuck onto the monitor.

 

Sorry for the confusion. A screen monitor.




Not the reptile. lol Hmmm food!

I mean the PC screen monitor.

 

Does 1password cope with accessing same eg bank login by two users on different devices?

 

Thanks.

 

1 password is great.

If you are on the Apple ecosystem you can use their built-in equivalent Keychain

Although I still prefer 1 password.

 

I use one of the aforementioned password managers, and I like that it works across my laptop and phone.

I am in the process of removing all the prefilled ones from my web browser.

 

I'm using Microsoft Authenticator on my Android phone and Edge as my browser. But I'm running a Windows 11 PC as my main machine and make heavy use of Office, so I'm tied into their ecosystem.

I had my phone set up to use Authenticator to be the password manager, but Chrome isn't playing nicely with it at the moment. I need to fix it.

Before that I used the Chrome password manager on my phone and PC, along with Google Authenticator or Authy.

I think that most of these password managers are much of a muchness. Authenticator is free and I'm a cheapskate.

But I am going to try Datto's suggestion of sticking Post-It notes onto a Monitor lizard.