Brainfart moment this morning when my password safe prompted me to unlock it with a password, and for a moment I thought to myself "Why am I having to manually type in a password? Don't I have a password safe to do this for me?" 🤦

More: https://danq.me/2024/01/11/brainfart/

The two most important things you can do to protect your online accounts remain to (a) use a different password, ideally a randomly-generated one, for every service, and (b) enable two-factor authentication (2FA) where it's available.

If you're not already doing that, go do that. A password passwords, authentication, published on gemini, security, two factor authentication

Following their security incident last month, many users of LastPass are in the process of cycling their security credentials for many of their accounts. I don't use LastPass, but I've had ocassion to cycle credentials before, so I appreciate the pain that people are going through.

It's not passwords, names, q, published on gemini, security