Easy wins: ditch the infinite, impossible passwords and set up a password manager

Our endless online accounts should all be protected by impenetrable passwords (but usually aren't). A centralised manager can be secure and easy

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Amid a flurry of data breaches, password leaks and Malware text scams last year, many of us have become more aware of the need to secure our digital information. Unfortunately, coming up with endless unique passwords for all our banking, shopping, working, schooling and subscribing accounts is tedious, memorising those passwords is near impossible, and relying on the classic 123456" password won't cut it.

Enter the password manager, the trusty vault of codes long forgotten, helping us access and secure our digital lives.