Software: Password Security
How to manage organize and secure or reveal passwords.

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Passwords are everywhere. You need them to log into e-mail, web accounts, forums, online shopping carts, online banks, your computer, documents and many other programs or web sites. Passwords help keep your information secure, however, there are a number of scaring vulnerabilities involved with passwords and they are most psychological.

Most people have the same password for all their accounts, which is certainly convenient, but don’t practical in terms of security. If someone finds it out, your ruin is at their mercy. With identity theft on the rise everywhere it is important to know how to manage and secure your passwords. Having different or randomly generated passwords are great however, difficult to keep track of or remember.

There are many password related software programs that can help you generate hard to break passwords, manage all your passwords with one program (which usually has its own password!) and password recovery programs that help you retrieve (or steal) lost passwords.

PasswordSaver and Password Protection Pro are great password management tools, that enable you to store a number of passwords all in one program. These programs are often called “web wallets”. Spytech PasswordLock is a smaller, but similar application that can also store your passwords.

Alpine Snow’s Anti-Secure Ultimate Password Recovery is an all-in-one password recovery tool for Windows. It can recover lost or forgotten passwords for E-mail programs, instant messaging software such as AIM and Yahoo Pager, website accounts, MSIE AutoComplete fields, windows screen savers, and many more software programs can be instantly recovered. This program can also unmask or unhide passwords hidden behind asterisk password protected text boxes, find passwords in the Windows registry, scan for hidden URLs of programs installed on your system, recover the AppsProtector XP Password, remove the Internet Explorer content ratings or RSACi password, and reveal the Windows 95/98/ME password of the screen saver. Windows 2000/XP Password Recovery instantly decrypts and recovers the password to the user currently logged into Windows. And the IOPUS Password Recovery software allows you to decrypt and display password stored behind the asterisks. It is the first tool of its kind that works automatically on Web pages, Windows 9x/NT and Windows 2000/XP systems.

I hope you are (not) feeling (in)secure about your passwords. As you can see there are many programs designed to securely store and manage your software, while many other’s actually “recover” passwords.