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Protect your passwords, banking details, addresses and more with these great free apps.  There’s no getting around it. Passwords are a curse of modern... Top 5 Password Managers

Protect your passwords, banking details, addresses and more with these great free apps. 

There’s no getting around it. Passwords are a curse of modern life. As, unfortunately, are the growing threats of hacking and cybercrime. So, it’s little wonder that password managers are growing in popularity. How they go about it varies slightly, but the core offer is basically the same: just a single, master-password to remember, and these clever apps do the rest for you. Sounds good? It is!
The programs featured in our selection are: Icecream Password Manager; Kaspersky Password Manager; LastPass; Password Boss and Password Memory.

LastPass

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LastPass is an award-winning password manager that can save your passwords and provide you with secure access from every computer and mobile device you have. With LastPass you need only remember one password – your LastPass master-password. For the technically-minded, LastPass Password Manager utilizes AES 256bit encryption implemented with salted hashing, along with PBKDF2 encryption keys. Basically, this means all of your sensitive data is encrypted and decrypted locally on your computer, so that only encrypted sensitive information is ever synced with LastPass. LastPass can never access your passwords, and your master-password is never shared with LastPass. Clever, right?