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Why you need a Password Manager right now

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Cyber crime has been on the rise and in a world beginning to embrace remote work, it has become all the more important to protect oneself from the havoc often wreaked by cyber criminals.     The majority of cyber attacks exploit the human element that is often baked into technology and this is why security is often one of the greatest concerns of any development team. Unfortunately, one of the most popular entry points for criminals is through your password. If you come up with your own passwords, chances are that they are moderately secure at best and at worst are an open door for cyber criminals. You may want to change them all right now especially if you are reusing some of them. Usually, sites that require login credentials save your password using a hashing algorithm; which transforms your password into a seemingly random assortment of characters referred to as a hash. The hash that results from your password is then saved to a database and then used in the future to auth...