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With so much of life spent online, what would happen to your social media accounts and email addresses in the event of your passing?   Just as you’d make arrangements for your physical assets after you’re gone, your digital information needs the same careful planning, too. A digital will makes it easier for your loved ones to take control of your digital life after you’ve passed. While you can’t spare them the heartache, you can prevent the stress of inaccessible accounts.   Ghost accounts, as they’re called, are those that live on even after you’ve died. Your informat ..read more

Sunscreen? Check. Bathing suit? Check. Phone charger? Check. LastPass? Check! As you pack your bags and head out for a much-needed summer vacation, don’t forget to take your password manager in your pocket, too. As COVID travel restrictions relax and folks venture further from home, planning for digital security and easy access from the road is essential. With a new save and fill experience on the mobile app plus the release of passwordless features, LastPass is easier than ever to use on your next trip. Before your trip Add LastPass to your pre-trip checklist, so your trip is smooth and worry ..read more

Your browser seems like a safe and convenient place to store passwords. But is it the best option? People often think they don’t need a password manager because their browser does it just fine, thank you very much. What many folks don’t realize, though, is that a password manager does far more than just store passwords. For security and convenience, password managers are a far superior choice to browsers for both individuals and businesses — and here’s why.  Browsers can save and fill passwords  Yes, the major browsers all have built-in password managers. The browser passwo ..read more

Remembering passwords is a pain, but so is typing them. Every time you need to log in to an account, you need to (correctly!) enter your username and password. Typing passwords is a repetitive, error-prone time waster. So is filling out your address, payment cards, and other personal details for every online order and signup form.   That’s why you should autofill your passwords with a password manager. Autofilling gives you speed, accuracy, and improved security.  Here’s what you need to know about how to use autofill with a password manager like LastPass. What is autofill?  ..read more

If you follow cybersecurity news, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by all the headlines about breaches disrupting businesses. Another day, another breach. After a while, you might even begin to feel like it’s just a matter of time before you’re caught up in a breach, too.   Now that our personal and professional lives are more blurred than ever before, it’s never been more important to stay vigilant. Here’s how you can combat breach fatigue, so you can stop worrying about when the other shoe is going to drop and take back control of your digital life.  Give your future self some peace ..read more

As organizations rapidly adopt new cloud apps and web services, they face a critical challenge: making sure employee access is as seamless as it is secure. Now that our digital lives have expanded in the past few years, so too have the access points through which cyber attackers can wreak havoc or compromise sensitive business data. Businesses are using single sign-on (SSO) solutions to counter this threat. SSO tools help organizations centrally manage employee accounts, and they also give employees convenient and secure access to many enterprise-ready cloud apps. They leave a gap, however — n ..read more

Keeping everyone in sync is crucial when your team is working on a project. Whether team members work in an office, from their home, or while traveling, they need instant access to the right resources to keep tasks moving along. For a work-from-anywhere team, secure password sharing is instrumental to facilitating better and safer collaboration. With a password manager to share account logins, everyone can access the information they need without sacrificing admin oversight or security.  Why password sharing matters  Passwords are a fact of work life. We use passwords to access compa ..read more

If you’re a long-time user of LastPass, you’ve probably accumulated a large number of passwords and website details in your vault. And you’re probably familiar with how to share, monitor, and store important account information safely with LastPass. But what about the passwords you used to keep in other places? What do you need to know about how to remove saved passwords from common browsers and devices? And how can you use LastPass to regularly audit your password security?   Finding saved passwords  Before using a password manager like LastPass, i ..read more

The way we work has changed irrevocably – for the better. Workers are feeling more empowered to better balance their personal lives with their professional commitments. Taking a work call at the beach boardwalk or making time for a hike between meetings can easily be found on any LinkedIn feed.   At the same time, hackers have taken note of this shift in workplace priorities and geographies, with an alarming increase in cyberattacks (ransomware attacks alone grew by 150% in 2020). With workforces displaced due to t ..read more