There are good ways and not at all good ways to protect your passwords and other login credentials. Here are the best ways to protect your most sensitive information currently.
How to Lose Your Login Credentials
You will lose at least one set of login credentials every year – (probably multiple logins), so you need to be prepared. What happens most often is the online store where you shopped had their data stolen. When that happens they usually take all the login information of their customers, along with any other personal information they can get such as credit card numbers.
While there’s nothing you can do about retailers or even hospitals being hacked or lockdown due to malware, there are some standard precautions you need to take every day.
One of those things is never to use one password for everything, not even a similar password. Why? Because when they get one of your passwords, you don’t want them to easily log into everything in your life. But what a pain, right?
Here is the simple way and the most secure way to protect your logins.
The Ultimate Login Credentials Security
While using your browser to save your passwords is super convenient and very secure, browsers get hacked, too. Maybe you downloaded a browser extension and it was malware. It happens! Or you delete your cookies! Whoopsie! There goes your login data, now what?
And what happens when some nim nut breaks into your home or car and steals your laptop? They have easy access to every password you saved in your browser by just guessing the password on your computer. If you’re lucky, you have your fingerprint access set up and it’ll stop them in their tracks.
But there’s an even better way. Password Managers.
Password managers are private software companies. They use end to end encryption to protect your password vault from entry. Do a double check on any password manager you’re considering to ensure they are using end to end encryption.
Read more about Password Managers with the next blog post which is posting on May 5, 2025.
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