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Are you trying to use the same password for everything?听Bad idea.

It sounds like a clever strategy to avoid forgetting which is which, but have you noticed how those online security breaches just seem to keep happening? That clever strategy of yours means that sooner or later your password to everything is going to get into the wrong hands, and then someone else has your password to everything. Not good.

Don't use the same password in multiple places

OK, so how do you remember multiple passwords?

The answer: YOU don鈥檛, your PASSWORD MANAGER does鈥�

Jump to the bottom for examples, videos and articles about password managers, or read on...

A password manager is like a locked safe containing a different password for every site you need one for (this is听a very good thing), and it applies the right password for each site when you need it. Basically, it keeps track of all those passwords that are not your work and bank passwords. To get into your password manager, or locked safe, you use a 鈥渕aster鈥� password, which should be a听long and听unguessable听password. An odd sentence with no spaces works well - but "theywillneverguessthisone" has already been figured out, so be more clever than that.

If someone can guess your master password, they can get to all your passwords, so be diligent about that long and听unguessable听password.

Sometimes you can use two-factor authentication to make this master password even more secure. (Two factor authentication is a process whereby after you enter a password into the system, you then need to do something else with something you have, such as entering a code that the system sent to your (preregistered)听cellphone, or entering a number displayed on a token, or inserting or touching a special USB device.)

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Examples of Password Managers

Here are an article and some videos about the value of using Password managers: