password manager

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password
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɑːs.wɜːd/us
/ˈpæs.wɝːd/
a secret word or combination of letters or numbers, used for communicating with another person or with a computer to prove who ...
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manager
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmæn.ə.dʒɚ/
the person who is responsible for managing ...
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(Definition ofpasswordandmanagerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some password managers attempt to use virtual keyboards to reduce this risk - though this again is vulnerable to key loggers which take screenshots as data is entered.
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Password managers usually store passwords encrypted, requiring the user to create a master password; a single, ideally very strong password which grants the user access to their entire password database.
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The major disadvantages of online password managers are the requirements that the user trusts the hosting site and a keylogger is not on the computer they are using.
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Some password managers include a password generator.
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All the other tools, such as the bundledpasswordmanagerwith user saved passwords are also inaccessible.
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Password reuse can be avoided or minimused by using mnemonic techniques, writing passwords down on paper, or using apasswordmanager.
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Generated passwords may be guessable if thepasswordmanageruses a weak random number generator instead of a cryptographically secure one.
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With this built-in advantage, the use of apasswordmanageris beneficial even if the user only has a few passwords to remember.
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A goodpasswordmanagerwill provide resistance against attacks such as key logging, clipboard logging and various other memory spying techniques.
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If the computer is on, it is possible for another individual to access thepasswordmanagerand read the user's password.
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They are a web-based version of more conventional desktop-basedpasswordmanager.
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Also, thepasswordmanagerintegrated into the browser let users set a master password to protect against unauthorized tampering or access to stored passwords in thepasswordmanager.
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Apasswordmanagerallows the user to use hundreds of different passwords, and only have to remember a single password, the one which opens the encrypted password database.
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Some password managers store passwords on the user's computer, whereas others store data in the cloud.
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Password managers can also be used as a defense against phishing and pharming.
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It is protecting against these vulnerabilities that makes password managers so important.
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Password managers can protect against keyloggers or keystroke logging malware.
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Some password managers use a user-selected master password or passphrase to form the key used to encrypt the protected passwords.
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Password managers that do not prevent swapping their memory to hard drive make it possible to extract unencrypted passwords from the computers hard drive.
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