Last. Pass 4. 0 Review & Rating. You've heard the saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Certainly if your password manager is doing everything it should, you don't necessarily need it to change. But sooner or later the interface starts to look dated, and the competition comes up with new features. Accordingly, the free Last. Pass 4. 0 has a bold new online interface, and its new features include a Sharing Center to manage shared passwords and Emergency Access to hand down your passwords to your heirs. These new features put the free Last. Pass ahead of even many of its for- pay competitors. I've been running Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7.0 web browser and really like it overall, except for one problem: by default searches in the search box go to. Overview. The universal RoboForm installer will automatically install the RoboForm AddOn into Firefox. RoboForm version 7.5 and later supports Firefox version 5 and. Overview. The universal RoboForm installer will install RoboForm into Opera when you check Opera in the Browser Integration window during the install. How good of a security system provider is Frontpoint? Our Frontpoint Security Reviews compare pros, cons, features, pricing, service, and more. ![]() You can use many commercial password managers for free if you accept substantial limitations. Some, like Robo. Form Everywhere 7, limit you to 1. Others, like Dashlane 3, are free as long as you stick to one device, no syncing. With such stringent restrictions, these aren't really free products. When initially released, the free edition of Last. Pass only let you sync across devices of the same type. You could use it with multiple desktops (Windows, Mac, or Linux), multiple smartphones (Android, i. OS, Windows Phone, or Black. Berry), or multiple tablets (Android, i. OS, or Windows). That limitation has been lifted. You can now sync passwords across all your devices, just as you can with Last. Pass Premium. Getting Started With Last. Pass. Setting up a Last. Pass account is simple. Start by downloading and installing the free app. You'll be prompted to either sign in to an existing account or sign up for a new one. As always, you should create a strong password, something that you can remember but that nobody else would guess. You can add a password hint, but that may not be the best idea. In June of 2. 01. Last. Pass servers. Thankfully, Last. Pass's impressive security meaures meant that no actual passwords, master or otherwise, were exposed. Just to be super- safe, the company notified all users to change their master passwords. The one thing that hackers might have obtained? Password hints. If you must use a master password hint, make it something cryptic, something only you will understand. And enable multifactor authentication, as explained below. Note that nobody at Last. Pass has access to your data, not without that master password. In the past, if you forgot your master password and the hint didn't jog your memory, you had no recourse but to start over. Now when you install Last. Pass on a new device, you get the option to have it save a one- time password for account recovery. The recovery process requires access to your email account and to the device, so this isn't too much of a security risk. Even so, I'd be inclined to stick with the master password. During installation, Last. Pass offers to slurp up passwords stored insecurely in your browsers. It also deletes the passwords from unsafe storage and turns off the browser's password capture. In addition, you can import data from several dozen competing password managers. Once the Last. Pass extension is installed in your browsers, you know the drill. Log in to your secure sites as always, and let Last. Pass save your credentials. You can assign a friendly name for the site at capture time, and add it to a new or existing folder. Last. Pass itself suggests folders for well- known sites. Sometimes you'll run across a website that uses a weird login page, something that Last. Pass doesn't capture automatically. Like Robo. Form and Sticky Password Premium, Last. Pass can handle these. Just enter your credentials and then, before logging in, select Save All Entered Data from the browser toolbar menu. Simple! Clicking the Last. Pass toolbar button in your browser brings up a menu that includes a menu of all your saved sites. Each folder becomes a submenu, and you can have nested folders. The menu of saved logins is a common feature, but Last. Pass and Sticky Password are among the few that allow nesting. Password Generator. When you sign up for a new account or change your password for an existing account, Last. Pass offers to generate a secure password. By default, the password generator creates 1. You can crank up the length and include punctuation to get even stronger passwords. On the flip side, if you need to remember the password and can accept a security hit, the Make Pronounceable option gives you passwords like ogypropoitio or morefesticku. When you do sign up for a new account, Last. Pass captures your credentials, and it offers to update its saved password when you make a change. This works whether or not you accept the aid of the password generator. I wish this component had gotten just a little enhancement in the move to version 4. True Key by Intel Security defaults to generating 1. Most users won't bother to change the defaults, so they'll get less- secure passwords from Last. Pass. Password Vault. With the move to version 4. Last. Pass Vault got a significant makeover. From the vault, you can view, edit, and organize all of your saved logins. You now have the option to see them displayed in a grid of tiles, much the way Dashlane 3 does. Last. Pass's tiles are rather large; the new ability to collapse the left- hand menu makes more room for them. A new multi- purpose Add button lets you add a new folder, secure note, or site, or share an existing item with other users (more about sharing later). In addition, you can now select multiple items at once and perform bulk actions like moving them all to a folder, sharing them, or deleting them. Emergency Access. The concept of setting up a way for your heirs to inherit your passwords originated with the Digital Legacy feature in Password. Box. Password. Box has since been subsumed into True Key, but the concept lives on. For example, Dashlane lets you set up any number of emergency contacts to receive all or some of your passwords. With the free Log. Me. Once Password Management Suite Premium, you can define one heir for your entire collection and five for individual logons. Emergency Access in Last. Pass works almost exactly the same as the similar feature in Dashlane. You enter your recipient's email address and define a waiting period. Recipients must install Last. Pass, if they haven't already, and accept your connection request. Now if something happens to you, the recipient simply requests access to your account. Dashlane does let you pass along just a subset of your saved credentials—for example, you might define a co- worker as recipient of your work- specific passwords. That's not an option in Last. Pass. Here's where the waiting period comes in. Suppose your supposedly trusted recipient decides to jump the gun and get your passwords before you've kicked the bucket. The initial request for access triggers an email to you, and you can deny the access request at any time during the waiting period. In a real emergency, your recipient automatically gets access after that time elapses. Clicking Emergency Access lets you view two pages, People I Trust (your password heirs) and People Who Trust Me (those who've made you their emergency access contact). On the People I Trust page you can delete anyone from the list, or change the waiting period. On the People Who Trust Me page, you can bow out of the emergency access role. Password Sharing. We normally recommend against sharing your passwords promiscuously, but there are situations that merit sharing. You and your spouse may share a bank account, for example. If you must share, you should do it safely. Sharing passwords with other users is a fairly common feature among password managers, though it's found more in commercial products than free ones. U Password Manager limits sharing to its mobile app. Enpass Password Manager 5 sends the credentials as an encrypted data block. Users of the free Log. Me. Once can share just five passwords. That makes Last. Pass the most flexible free password manager as far as sharing goes. Just point to an item in the vault to reveal the new hover- style choices, click the sharing icon, and enter the recipient's email address. Recipients who already use Last. Pass will see a notification that a new share has arrived; others will get an email message explaining how to create an account and accept the share. The recipient can use the shared item to log in; you choose whether or not to make the password visible. Sharing Center. The new Sharing Center within the online vault lets you easily manage your shared items. .
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