- World Password Day is there
- Most Techradar players use Google Password
- Password managers are considered best practices for password hygiene
We interviewed our Techradar Pro readers on WhatsApp (you can join our channel here) to ask them which password manager they use to ensure the safety of their accounts, and the most popular was Google Motway Manager, a free service to use easily accessible and integrated into the Chrome and Android devices, with 39% of the respondents who chose this service. You can consult our full Google Password Manager exam here.
Concern, read readers closely who do not use password management service at all, 20% of our readers have chosen to manage their accounts by themselves. Take a look at our choices for the best password manager here if you need recommendations.
The confidence of a third party with your passwords and your identification information is naturally delivered with a risk element, especially since the security attacks against password managers climbed last year. If you choose to manage your password hygiene yourself, be sure to rotate them often, never reuse them between the sites and always change them immediately if they are exposed in a breach.
A secondary second
Among those who use a password manager, Apple passwords came just behind Google passwords with 23% by choosing the service. It is a fairly basic, free and integrated manager with Apple OS, which usefully reports to data violations and password health.
Many of our readers (17%) use a different third -party service, if it’s you, do not hesitate to let us know what you recommend and why. No matter what you use, password management is definitely important, especially given the quantity of our digital lives;
“Good password hygiene and management is crucial in today’s world, where we all have many different accounts,” explains Joel Latto, threat advisor at F-Secure
“If a hacker has access to an account that uses a password similar to another, it is easy for them to also obtain information from the other account.