Today, I will be sharing with you all LastPass the free password manager, which will help us manage our passwords for different websites. Because nowadays we visit and register on various websites on a daily basis and we cannot remember all the passwords we use for different websites, so we just re-use the one which we always use, which I like to call the “Default” Password.
But this is a major security flaw because, imagine one of the sites you registered with was hacked and you used the similar password on other sites, this means your account on all the other websites are also compromised. This is seriously bad and it does happen, recently Twitter’s and eBay’s database were hacked and some proportion of the database was compromised. And we received a message to reset our password, so most users resets their password for that site, but what about the other sites with similar passwords.
To avoid that problem we need unique passwords for each site we visit, but it once again raises the question of our inability to remember all those. So we come to the solution after a few paragraphs of text and that is LastPass. LastPass remembers all your passwords and it also has a password generator that generates strong unique passwords for your account and you don’t even have to remember it because LastPass does it for you.
LastPass Vault showing recently used websites
LastPass Features
- Auto fill Login information, so you don’t need to remember passwords
- Generate unique strong passwords
- Automatically save sites as you register or login on new Web sites
- Import old login data from browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc)
- Save form data and auto fill them, frequently fill up the forms? Now those are no problem
- Save Debit Card and Credit Card details securely and auto fill them.
- Securely save important notes (Bank account details and other information)
- security audit of your passwords
Security Audit results for my passwords and it shows, how badly I am doing, because most of the websites have the same passwords
And there are many more features which you can all read about at LastPass Website, before wrapping everything up just let me tell you that LastPass works with almost every Operating Systems and Browsers, so you can access it from anywhere and everywhere and the data is centralized at their servers, so your data is available across all the devices you use LastPass with.
There are also various alternatives available for LastPass for which you can do a google search, and if you find something interesting, just share it with all of us using the comments.