The makers of password manager companies advertise their software as a safe way to store the keys to your digital life, but recent incidents cast doubt on those claims.
LastPass CEO Karim Toubba has revealed that the password manager was breached for a second time. The company said personal information was disclosed, but customer passwords remained safe. The incident is a reminder, some experts say, that you should take extra precautions with your password.
“Perhaps the biggest vulnerability for users is that a weak master password can compromise all other passwords: so it is important that users select a very strong master password and commit that master password to memory,” Brian Robert Callahan, the graduate program director of information technology and web services at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, told Lifewire in an email interview. “That way, brute force attempts on the master password become infeasible or impossible.”
LastPass Hacked?
LastPass might not live up to its name after the recent security incident. The company said it detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service shared by LastPass and its affiliate, GoTo. LastPass…
