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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 25419272" data-attributes="member: 562115">There are pros & cons.  There are many open sourced password manager programs. They help to remember passwords, along with your login credentials used for each account. They make it easier to use strong passwords which you cannot memorise.At the same time, they also make it very easy to lose all your passwords ,  or for any attacker to steal all your passwords  at once.However, Password Managers do help prevent Password-Reuse (where an intruder breaks in and steal one username/password combination and try to login to other sites - as many users tend to use the same credentials across multiple sites), they can protect you from Phishing (sometimes you might get fooled by a fake site which cleverly imitates the original, but the password manager program doesn't get caught).OTOH, if you forget the Master Password then you do have a problem (sometimes there are recovery options), and at attack on your Password Manager can reveal all the passwords. Also some Malware can read your passwords when you use the Password Manager program, and some password mangers can have bugs that could be exploited. Not everything is bug proof. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />  There are ways of recovering some passwords from the memory as some of the programs fail to scrub the RAM properly after use - too detailed to describe here.Generally it's said that using a Password Manager is better than not having one.</blockquote>

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