Safety first: the short, simple guide to securing all your passwords
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#4T2BD)
If you log in to every website with the same details, you're doing it wrong. Here are four easy steps to unhackability
It feels like it comes round earlier every year. Yes, today is bad password day, your annual reminder that you should install a password manager and randomise your passwords, lest you end up mocked in the national press for securing your precious secrets behind the unhackable protection of "passw0rd!".
The prompt this time is the annual report of the National Cyber Security Centre, a GCHQ subsidiary tasked with defending Britain's online infrastructure.
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