Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How to use a password manager”.
If you’re watching this there’s a good chance using the same password over and over again – and I’m here to tell you that is not a good idea, let me tell you what happened to me a few years ago. Definitely headed nowhere and sit in my password. Let you know how long this wasn’t it Zappala snapped. I don’t even know what even act, because I use the same password to get in again buddy.
That was countless more of it. It was my Instagram account Facebook account, and so, if we end up with a password exposed, hey girl thanks get another security breach. I’M gon na show you how to start secure here accounts. The most important thing we can do is use different passwords for different services. It sounds really complicated at heart.
Remember, but it’s not. We needed to nap hold a password manager, something that can remember all of your usernames and passwords and automatically plug in straight as websites they’re, really really handy and pretty easy to use once they get set up. There are a bunch of options out there like one password and dashlane, but for this video we’re gon na talk about LastPass, because it’s completely free and it works on. Basically every platform Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, even Chrome OS, so you’ll be able to use it.
No matter where you are you sign up, the first thing you’ll be asked to do is create a master password. This is what you’ll type to log into LastPass, and basically it’s the only password you’ll ever have to remember, so you better make it a gateway. Now another thing being the probably character letter a number: they make that oh into a zero.
Don’T forget all of that! What you want something that’s long, but you need to remember so instead of a password think passphrase, something like excitable, wizard, tomato-based machine you’re, not gon na forget that, but it’s gon na be really hard for a hacker who’s guessing password after pastor after password to figure Out, okay, so what are the hacker is actually doing here? We asked Russell Brandon before the cyber security reporter to find out so imagine a big breach like the one that hit Yahoo in 2013, hackers got log ins and hashed passwords for a billion accounts. Now that’s a lot of people and it’s a huge problem for everybody, even outside of Yahoo. Suppose you’ve got a scam going and you need to hack a bunch of Facebook accounts.
If you can, by unhatched Yahoo passwords on a criminal marketplace, you can use a tool like century MBA to run all 1 billion those passwords against Facebook and see which of them work if you’re lucky you get wanting a thousand before a breach as big as Yahoo. That’S a million password. Of course, Facebook will get suspicious if one computer is putting in millions of passwords a second, so the program’s get clever using botnets to spread the logins out over millions of IP addresses using different profiles and different browser fingerprints. So each one looks like a different user. It’S an arms race between hackers trying to use the passwords and services trying to stop, but, at the end of the day, the ones that work for legitimate passwords back services can only do so much to keep hackers out and that’s why you want to use different Passwords with each account, because even if we end up in a big breach like yahoo, your other accounts will still be safe. Alright, so now you need to go about changing all of your passwords.
I Spence can actually help you out a bit by automatically importing any passwords. You already have saved you browser and even as a button, they’ll automatically change some of those passwords, but it doesn’t always work and you’re. Probably gon na have to enter some of these manually, which can take a little bit of time, say: you’re, ready to secure your Facebook account you’ll, find the change password screen and then LastPass of all this little button up here with corner of the box. You just click on that and LastPass will be able to generate and fill in a big long, complicated password for you.
That’S ok, because you’re never gon na have to remember it wants to save the LastPass it’ll, be there forever and that’s it. Fortunately, you don’t have to do this all at once and honestly I’d recommend waiting a few days before you add you know your bank account or your email address just to make sure you have a hang of it. Just you know, it’s gon na be a little bit more work on mobile because even have to copy your password as the last best app and into whatever you’re signing into. But it’s worth the effort.
Ok, so that’ll actually make you more secure than most. But there’s one more step: you can do to make your accounts even safer. It’S called 2-step authorization and you should set that up too. Usually, what this means is that, when you go to log into a website, the website will text a shortcode to your phone and you have to enter that code as well as your password to get logged in the idea.
Is that even if a hacker has your password, they’ll also need to steal your phone in order to break into your account, which is gon na, be a lot more work? Yes, this will make logging in to take a few seconds longer, but it’s much more secure and you’ll feel a little bit like a secret agent. Every time you get a special code sent to you at least that’s how I feel some quick words are warning about all of this. First of all, never forget your master password seriously.
If you do you’re gon na be locked out of everything, some accounts will give you a backup code, make sure you hang on to it and on. Even if you do take both of these steps. You’Re never gon na be 100 % impossible to hack.
It’S just not gon na happen. Even two-factor systems can and are being breached. But if you take these steps, you’re still gon na make it much harder for somebody to get into your account where they’re not supposed to and with more and more of our lives. Moving online, that’s increasingly important and it’s definitely worth the effort. So you guys my facebook account your my Instagram account and .