{"id":14053,"date":"2017-02-15T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/?p=14053"},"modified":"2020-02-26T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:03:09","slug":"new-password-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/new-password-manager\/14053\/","title":{"rendered":"Password and password managers problems: Solved in a single update"},"content":{"rendered":"

We keep talking<\/a> (and talking<\/a>, and talking<\/a>) about passwords. Having strong passwords for all accounts is really a must: Our recent study<\/a> shows that one in five users has experienced attempts to hack their accounts \u2014 usually by plain and simple brute-force cracking of weak passwords.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that any digital account is more than just a way to access certain information. Accounts in social networks are keys to our memories that we probably don\u2019t want to lose<\/a>, and to some degree they are our reputation, which we probably don\u2019t want smeared.<\/p>\n

Gaming accounts are especially attractive<\/a> to cybercriminals; many people who have accounts on gaming services like Steam or Battle.net invest huge sums of money in games. And if crooks steal your e-mail account? Game over. Users\u2019 accounts are typically tied to their e-mail, so if you lose control of that, you can say goodbye to basically all of your digital life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Captain Obvious is here to repeat yet again: Protect everything with strong, secure passwords<\/b>. But there is a problem with that: The more secure is the password, the harder is to remember. And we have to remember not just one password, but dozens \u2014 for different services. So people often find themselves struggling: \u201cIs that the password that I set up for this service? No. OK, maybe that one? No. One more wrong guess and I\u2019ll be locked out!\u201d
\n\"Captain<\/a><\/p>\n

It would be easier if we could use just one strong and secure password for every service, but that\u2019s tremendously insecure. If just one service\u2019s database is leaked (and that happens<\/a> alarmingly often), you\u2019ll probably lose not just one account, but all of them at once. For example, that\u2019s how hackers snagged Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Twitter account \u2014 the password was exposed in the LinkedIn breach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a solution to this problem \u2014 password managers. For example, our own Kaspersky Password Manager<\/a> can help you create really strong<\/i> passwords \u2014 passwords that no one can hack. They store those passwords and input them on your behalf, so you don\u2019t need to remember the complex character sequences. You have to memorize only one \u2014 the master password \u2014 and Password Manager will input the corresponding password for the particular service you are trying to access. Easy!<\/p>\n

A good password manager becomes the best<\/h2>\n

But there is a problem with password managers as well: The more you rely on them, the more likely you are to forget every one of your passwords but the master password. And what if you have to access one of your accounts from someone else\u2019s device? For example, that might happen if you want to show some pictures from your cloud storage to your friend when staying at their place or, say, play an online game together with them, and that game is tied to your Steam account. You probably won\u2019t remember the password for this service, and installing a password manager on someone else\u2019s PC or smartphone doesn\u2019t seem like a good idea.<\/p>\n

Starting today, Kaspersky Password Manager can help you with that problem. Now it has a web interface that you can access from your My Kaspersky<\/a> account. So you can simply input your master password there to see a list of your passwords. Just copy the right one and paste it into the cloud service or Steam or whatever. You don\u2019t need to install Password Manager on someone else\u2019s computer and leave that person access to your passwords (you do, of course, need to log off when you\u2019re done).<\/p>\n

There are actually more improvements in the new version of our Password Manager.<\/p>\n