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Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Passwordstate password management solution that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote adversary to obtain a user's plaintext passwords. "Successful exploitation allows an unauthenticated attacker to exfiltrate passwords from an instance, overwrite all stored passwords within the database, or elevate their privileges within the application," Swiss cybersecurity firm modzero AG said in a report published this week.

To protect your password manager account, you're required to set up a master password. That master password must be especially strong and complex and certainly should never be used elsewhere, but almost half of the password manager users hit by identity theft used their master password for other accounts.

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LastPass source code breach - do we still recommend password managers? DOUG. That's important to point out, because a lot of people, I think, who don't understand how password managers work - and I wasn't totally clear on this either as you write in the article, your local machine is doing the heavy lifting, and all the decoding is done *on your local machine*, so LastPass doesn't actually have access to any of the things you're trying to protect anyway.

As you no doubt already know, because the story has been all over the news and social media recently, the widely-known and widely-used password manager LastPass last week reported a security breach. We regularly recommend our readers and podcast listeners to consider using a password manager, even though we've also written up numerous security blunders in password manager tools over the years.

That's why using a strong, unique password for each individual account is so important. Creating and remembering strong, unique passwords for dozens of accounts is nearly impossible - unless you're using a top-rated password manager like Keeper.

1Password is a password manager that allows you to store all of your passwords in one place. Most people resort to using the same password across several apps to avoid having to remember multiple passwords.

Regardless of how you've come to realize that good business password management is essential, you've probably then found yourself faced with another problem: How do you pick the right password management software for your particular business? Many people even choose to forego a password manager in favor of Android and iOS' built-in password keychains, but that's not an option in professional situations where password security is paramount.