Showing posts with label Encryption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Encryption. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2011

LastPass Warns of Potential Breach, Ratchets Up Security

OK FOLKS, TAKE NOTE LAST PASS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED!!

Read about it here.

I don't use them, but I know many people who do! CHANGE YOUR MASTER PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY!
It's important to note that they have no evidence that anyone was actually compromised - YET.

Once you change your master password any breach that may have happened will be rendered moot. Their service is still good, I’m sure – just not good enough for me.

I have used KeePass for years and looks like I will continue to do so now for sure - it is open source and resides on YOUR system(s). It may not be as 'slick' and completely web based as LastPass but I trust it more. I guess I will NOT be migrating to that service after all.

As a systems administrator and IT guy, I have no less than 78 items in my main password safe! And I have a few smaller ‘safes’ for some of my clients. So it is necessary for me to have a place to keep them all and of course a flat file or piece of paper wouldn’t work.
I keep a KeePass safe on my machines that I sync and also on a usb drive. I have always believed in owning my information.

Be safe folks.