The password managers access διευκολύνουν τη χρήση ισχυρών, μοναδικών κωδικών πρόσβασης παντού. Αυτό είναι ένα σημαντικό όφελος από τη χρήση τους, αλλά υπάρχει και ένα άλλο: Ο διαχειριστής κωδικών πρόσβασης σας προστατεύει από τους falsewebsites that try to "fish" your password.
What is phishing and how does it work?
Fishing ( Phishing) is designed to trick you into giving your password or other information to a scammer.
For example, suppose you receive an email claiming to come from your bank. The email indicates that your account may have been compromised and you must click a link to take immediate security measures. Click on the email link and you will end up with a website that looks like your real bank website.
Hastily, to secure your account, you enter your password and possibly other details such as your credit card number cards. Phishing done. The attacker now has your bank account username and password, as well as any other information you provided in the completed form. It wasn't your real bank's website. You received the email from a scammer.
Security professionals recommend not clicking on links in such messages. Instead, go directly to your bank account website from a new tab in your browser and log in. Likewise, if someone claiming to be from your bank calls you, hang up and call your bank's customer service number directly to see if the call she was real.
There are many other ways you can come up with a phishing site. You might click on a link to buy something on the web and end up with a page that looks like Amazon.com or another online store, but it is not. You might click on a link to email someone and get a Google login screen for your Gmail account.
It's all in the URL
There is something you can do to find phishing sites:
Examine the URL in the web page address. For example, if you do banking with Piraeus, verify that you are in the domain of Piraeus. But e-fishing sites could be smart - for example, an e-fishing site might use the domain "www.winbank.gr.safe.info/onlinebanking/login".
If you read the URL carefully, you will realize that this URL is actually hosted on "safe.info" and not on "winbank.gr".
Likewise, some phishing sites use characters that look like other characters to make the address look like the real thing. For example www.winbank.gr can become www.winbanκ.gr, adding a Greek character in place of k.
How a password manager helps to protection your
If you use a password manager, you have extra protection. This is valid for as long as the password manager can automatically fill in your credentials, be it 1Password, LastPass or someone else. From iGuRu.gr we highly recommend him KeePass because it encrypts and stores your passwords locally rather than in the cloud.
If you save a link to a site like winbank.gr or Amazon.com, your password manager will remember the address and automatically provide you with the password when you are on the right page. If you are on a different site, your password manager will not display the password you are using.
This protection will not display a large red alert. But you will notice that the password manager does not find a password to log in to this page.
It also works on a smartphone
Of course, the same features are available when using a password manager on a mobile device.
