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Learn how to secure your passwords

SKILL LEVEL Anyone can do it

REQUIRES Windows 11 Windows 10

Relying on the same old passwords to secure your online accounts is not good practice. A quick trip to https:// haveibeenpwned.com will almost certainly reveal that one or more of them has been exposed in the past 20 years or so. The solution is simple, yet complicated. It’s simple because you just need to generate long, random passwords comprising letters, numbers and symbols to make them hard to guess or crack through brute force, but complicated because it’s hard to remember them all.

The solution lies in employing the services of a password manager. This helps you to generate those random passwords, then stores them

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