And unlike commercial competitor LastPass, KeePass doesn’t automatically put your password database in the cloud (although you can put it into Dropbox yourself). KeePass lets you keep all of these username/password pairs in a securely encrypted database, protected behind a single master password, which is the only password you’re ever going to have to remember. So, seriously: Use a unique, difficult password for each and every website you sign up for, no matter how little you plan to visit it. This means that if the user database of any one website you sign up for is compromised, hackers can (and often do) just try your username and password on many other websites and gain access. A secure, lengthy, completely random password goes a long way towards improving your security–and having a separate password for each and every website and service you use is the single most important thing you can do to keep secure.įor too many of us, the alternative to a password manager is using the same password everywhere. This free and open-source password manager is available for Windows, with unofficial ports for iOS, Android, Linux, and Mac OS X. If you adopt just one security tool this year, make it KeePass.

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