passwords

Great Method to Sync all your passwords with Google

April 27, 2016 by computerera

It’s hard to create and remember passwords. That’s why people hate passwords. But in today’s scenario passwords became essential for every social networking account.

There are plenty of the third party password managers available to encrypt and store passwords in a safe vault. Personally, I have been using LastPass password manager.

But the main disadvantage with such password manager services is they works “Free” on desktop operating systems like Windows, but we need to subscribe to premium service to sync all the saved passwords to the Android, iOS clients. Here Google inbuilt password manager comes handy.

Chrome offers Password Manager

Did you remember that last time when you entered a username, passwords on any site, Chrome might be prompted with “save the password for this site” message? That indicates the inbuilt password manager functionality embedded into the Google Chrome Browser.

If you have been using Google Chrome for a long time on Desktop and Mobile, you no need to depend on third-party password managers like LastPass, etc.

All the passwords you remembered earlier and now onwards will seamlessly sync on all the platforms such as Windows, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, etc. So begin to use Google Chrome effectively by exploring these Password Managing options.

Google “Smart Lock” helps too.

Typing lengthy User ID, passwords on mobile apps is the hardest task for all of us. To overcome it Google introduced “Smart Lock” feature which helps both end users and app developers.

Once any username, password for any social account saved in the Google’s Smartlock database, next time when the user tries to login into the new device, it will automatically be logged in. App developers need to implement this mechanism into their apps.

3 Things to Stop Storing on your Smartphone

April 22, 2016 by computerera

People treat Smartphone as a central hub to store all the crucial data they had. Yeah, it’s certainly a scary thought.. It’s your choice to store whatever you feel important on your smartphone. But you need to consider privacy concern also little bit. Otherwise, your valuable data can be misused. Here, I’ll discuss 5 things which lead to major issues if we neglect them.

Username, passwords

Remembering username passwords for various social accounts like Facebook, Google, Twitter becoming a hard task for every user. Actually, people stopped to memorize credentials, they are using the same password for every instance. There are few people who had security awareness, those people only creating new passwords for every new account they create.

But still 90% of the smartphone users have a common practice of storing username and passwords in plain text format on their mobile devices. If your phone gets theft, you will also lose all this sensitive data. So avoid storing plain text entries of username passwords on your mobile.

Don’t Geo Tag Pictures and Videos

Are you aware of the fact, that your photos and videos carry your location details? Yes, a major portion of the mobile phone users doesn’t know this.

Check your phone camera settings, there will be a special option named “Geo Tagging” exists on every mobile camera application. It stores the coordinates of your current location in the form of EXIF data, along with the photos you have taken.

When you shared those photos and videos on any social network such as Facebook, anybody can download them and read the EXIF data to find out your exact location. So I recommend you to please turn off Geo-tagging from the Camera apps.

Pictures of your Important Docs

I have an educated family member in my village. He used to guide me to carry important documents like Aadhaar card, Voter ID etc. in the smartphone. Not only that person, nowadays this practice became viral in all the educated people.

Taking and storing snaps of important documents may be comfortable in certain situations, but in case of mobile theft, there are plenty of chances to misuse your valuable documents.

If you really want to carry electronic versions of your documents, try to use Digital Wallets like one Govt. Of India providing the citizens across the India free of cost. I already made a video demo of this earlier.

Trouble remembering all Passwords? Use this Android App

April 17, 2016 by computerera

Okay, let’s do some exercise!

How many passwords do you use from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you go to bed in night? Let’s make a rough count… Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Amazon, Flipkart, SBI online, LinkedIn, Evernote, Quora etc. Phew, the count doesn’t end still, what about Outlook, Snapdeal, Debit cards info and even your PC or mobile passwords.

Also the burden on our brains doubles if we have multiple accounts for a single website. How many of you remember all those passwords exactly every time you need them? Aren’t you, then this article is for you.

Almost everything in this world is digitalized now. There is nothing exaggeration in saying – the only thing that secures your privacy and your identity today is your passwords. Because of the negligence, intolerance, busyness or even with the mixture of all the three, most of us choose to go for a single MASTER PASSWORD that we use for all the websites.

But this can make the doors open for a havoc to come. To solve this problem, there are a plenty of potential applications in the market known as ‘Password Managers’ to track all your passwords. One such application is ‘Dashlane Password Manager’ for Android.

Dashlane makes it easy to track all your passwords and your personal info that you use across the internet, with the access anywhere and anytime. You can save all your passwords at Dashlane in one place and use them whenever needed without the headache of remembering all those. The ultimate features that Dashline provides what sets it apart from all other applications are –

1) Apart from saving all your passwords at a single convenient place, Dashlane gives you the instant access to all your accounts whenever needed and its AutoFill features makes you feel awww.
2) It allows you to sync the data between between multiple devices you use.
3) It will alert you to change your passwords regularly and it can even make the strong passwords on behalf of you for your accounts.
4) ‘Digital Wallet’ feature is like feather in its cap and it will make your secure payments on the go.
5) You can grant access to your passwords to some others in case of any emergency.

The most important and the ultimate feature that Dashlane provides is its user interface and its AES-256 encryption to your passwords. They say only YOU have the access to your information and not even Dashlane has the key to your encrypted data.

You also try and let us know how it feels to use ‘Dashlane’, in the comments section below. And lastly,

“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.”

– Rakesh Priyatham