How a good password manager can protect you against phishing attacks
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I've used Lastpass for years. I find it essential now as it also ensures I have a different password for each site. Too many people re-use passwords. You should use two-factor too, but I don't think that's viable for Steem. Any other site that wants you to sign into your Steem account should really be using Steemconnect
Why would anyone with right mind send password in wallet memo in the first place. They ask for the stealing obviously lol.
Speaking of password manager, you certainly missed out the best one -- Bitwarden. It is open source as the Keepass but offering cloud syncing. I store my every credentials in Bitwarden and use Keepass for cold storage. Never felt better saying to Lastpass few months ago.
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They do this by mistake, and there is actually articles on the web that tell you to do this with your private memo key for transfers from exchanges. This is bad advice (even though a private memo key won't allow someone to transfer), you only need a memo going to Exchanges, but it still happens.
Always lookin out marky! Also, if a person is at a college or somewhere their computer might be exposed they can protect their passwords by applying a master pass to Chrome and/or Firefox. Surprise surprise, edge does not support this feature, although your passwords are automatically locked by your computers password when using edge, they can still be lifted by third party applications. Be sure to stick with Chrome of Firefox!
My only problem with password managers is that they cause me to forget my passwords!
I have over 1,500 passwords over the years, there is no way I could remember these without a password manager, especially since they are all crazy long like the example above.
O.O Impressive, you would have to be a savant to remember all of that! Password managers are definitely the way to go. I bet they even help mitigate potential key logging attacks too. I am going to check out those password managers you linked
As the post has been added to the feed of Utopian contributions, thus I will give a few notes to you. We can see your efforts in helping people not to be scammed or lose any sensitive data. However, the topics you write about are often of too broad nature and thus making it difficult to see your posts to perfectly fit the Utopian aim.
On the other hand, you increase the awareness of risky behaviour on the blockchain and on the web in general, which may help other people to avoid making these mistakes.
It is great to see that people are doing their best to help others stay safe and not lose what they earned by working hard.
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Thanks for your information and help.
Exectly password manager is the one of the best solution to prevent from phishing attack..
@themarkkymark well written thanks for shearing a nice and very helpful post with us
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Thanks pancake man I will look into getting one of these.
Yup!
Thanks for the insight.
Be careful out there folks. They're trying to get that wallet!!
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