LastPass

[Krazeehhh]

Is LastPas any good? does anyone use it? 

[Jade]

Linus or (maybe both, not sure) Luke use it. I use it and don't mind it; there's decent alternatives too, though.

[Krazeehhh]

2 minutes ago, Jade said:

Linus or (maybe both, not sure) Luke use it. I use it and don't mind it; there's decent alternatives too, though.

I really want to start using it but not sure

[Jade]

1 minute ago, Krazeehhh said:

I really want to start using it but not sure

The LastPass team are pretty responsive about any problems with the software. Again, I'm not unhappy with it, but I'd also take a look at Dashlane, KeePass, and 1Password. It really comes down to, "What are your concerns with/about LastPass?"

[Krazeehhh]

1 minute ago, Jade said:

The LastPass team are pretty responsive about any problems with the software. Again, I'm not unhappy with it, but I'd also take a look at Dashlane, KeePass, and 1Password. It really comes down to, "What are your concerns with/about LastPass?"

Well I recently had an email hacked and money stolen from me, i want to prevent that from happening again. I will be getting KeePass aswell as a desktop app aswell.

[Sakkura]

Kinda sketchy security. I use Keepass instead.

[Jade]

8 minutes ago, Krazeehhh said:

Well I recently had an email hacked and money stolen from me, i want to prevent that from happening again. I will be getting KeePass aswell as a desktop app aswell.

Any reasonably secure password manager will help that, but simply doing that is partially how you apply it... if you use a weak password for your LastPass/KeePass vault and someone spends the time to crack it & succeeds, you're boned. If the banking site gets hacked, you're also boned -- nothing a password manager could do to prevent that.

 

Basically, yes, any of the password managers I mentioned will help prevent that, assuming you use them correctly;

• Never logged in or opened on untrusted hardware.
• Logged out of the password manager/vault when not in active use 
• You set the manager to use random, long passwords for each site (it'll do the password remembering for you!)
• You really should utilize two factor authentication for whatever manager you go with; it will make it significantly harder for anyone to get in.
• Use a strong & different password for your email that you can remember. That email can reset your logins to most things. Enable two factor auth on your email, too.

I'd really suggest using one or the other, but not multiple; that only expands the potential vulnerabilities.

 

tl;dr: Any password manager will do the job; just use one, though. Employ 2FA on your email and password manager. Use common sense.

[Krazeehhh]

I have two-factor auth on everything now pretty much, but my password is not something you would ever think of for sure. I will use KeePass aswell. 

[captain_to_fire]

I'm a lastpass user and I gotta say it worked well for me. They're quick to patch software bugs in their apps and it works well with two factor authentication. 

[Timon18]

I've been using the last pass for 2 years and don't had any problem.