{"id":1725,"date":"2021-06-08T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2021-06-08T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:50:25","slug":"password-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Password managers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityevaluators.com\/casestudies\/password-manager-hacking\/\">Recently<\/a>, it&#8217;s come to light that password managers may not be as secure as they could be. After reading through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityevaluators.com\/casestudies\/password-manager-hacking\/\">analysis<\/a>, it becomes apparent that they&#8217;re still better than using the same password for everything, or storing passwords in a plain text file on your computer! Additionally there are databases on the internet filled with known <a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/Passwords\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/Passwords\">pwned<\/a> passwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an attempt to combat these issues, I have been using <a href=\"https:\/\/keepass.info\/\">keepass<\/a> for ages now to store all of my passwords, and have found it to be very useful in keeping my life online secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It stores all my passwords in an encrypted file, and allows me to have a unique, strong &gt;20 character length, password for each and every website\/application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there are downsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it is compromised, then that&#8217;s all my passwords exposed in one place, so it&#8217;s important that the password securing the password vault is secure, and 2 factor authentication is also available. (As passwords alone are not that secure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, if I forget my master password, I&#8217;m then locked out of all my passwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, using a password manager to store unique strong passwords for every website is much easier than trying to remember a unique strong password for every website which requires a password!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, it&#8217;s come to light that password managers may not be as secure as they could be. After reading through the analysis, it becomes apparent that they&#8217;re still better than using the same password for everything, or storing passwords in a plain text file on your computer! Additionally there are databases on the internet filled&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1725\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling","category-security","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}