The second factor includes, for example, own authentication apps (Authenticator), the phone number, SMS or email address as additional confirmation for the login process. As an additional protection, most providers today rely on a second factor for the login, which defuses the relevance of the password a little bit. Should a password fall into the wrong hands, a possible same email and password combination could be misused on multiple websites. If possible, passwords should be unpredictable, contain special characters and be long so that they cannot be guessed or tested by any tools or hackers. One way to protect passwords and reduce the attack surface is to use unique passwords for each website. Passwords should not be used more than once But an additional PIN or biometric authentication, such as fingerprint or facial recognition, can also sometimes be used to unlock the password database. The password and optionally a second factor are required to access the database. At the heart of a password manager is a password database, which is usually encrypted with a master password. The solution for those who are not into brain jogging may be a password manager.Ī password manager stores the login details for all websites, apps or other access points and helps log onto them automatically. I know you can do better than this.Without proper tools, it is difficult to use complex and unique passwords on all websites, which lowers the security of accounts and thus one's data. Or indeed, when I've already logged into Windows using biometrics? This also is a stupid duplication of effort and waste of precious time.Ĭome on, people. However, when I returned to the Firefox extension and tried to autofill, it again filled the old password! What? So I had to force a sync with the extension before it actually contained the new password! This is nothing but stupid.Īdditionally, why do I have to keep logging into the extension with biometrics when I've already logged into the app using biometrics. So I forced a sync, and it now had the new password. I started the store app and tried autofilling from there, and sure enough, it had the old password, too. I thought, Okay, it must not have synced password databases yet. When the extension autofilled the password, it was the old password. Shortly afterwards, maybe an hour later, I was using my Windows laptop and the Firefox browser and attempted to login to my VPN. I then copied and pasted the new password into the iPhone Bitwarden app. I did this on my iPhone using the iCloud PW manager functions to generate the new password. For example, I just changed the password for my VPN online at the VPN's website. First of all, it does not coordinate with the MS Store Bitwarden App.
This extension is pretty good, but needs specific improvements in order to be worthy of 5 Stars.
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