Great new web-based password manager

Like you, I have many websites I must log into for work and at home, and it is a difficult thing to keep up with the user id and password for every site.  There is also the concern of keeping them secure.  This gets harder each year as more resources that were software-based become web-based.

Introducing a new password manager application called LastPass. LastPass is completely web-based and has a browser plugin that is very simple to install into Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox and makes it easy to log in to all of these sites.  You can also access these by logging in to your account on Lastpass.com if you are out somewhere and don’t want to install the plugin to the browser.

So how much does it cost for this service?  The great news is that it is free!  So, what do you do to use it?  You just need to create an account on www.lastpass.com and download and install the browser plugin on your computer.  Then, as you are logging into any site, you will see a prompt at the top of the browser that asks you if you would like to store this site’s login information.  You can even create groups by specifying a group name when creating the new site login entry.

I have used other products that are purely software based and, while these are also good products, they always require you to add software to the machine.  With Lastpass.com you have the option of not installing anything or simply installing the plugin which gives you access to all of your accounts right from the browser menu.

I highly recommend that you consider using this solution if you regularly have to log in to secure sites like Banks and Financial investment sites.  You can use the built-in function to change your password and let Lastpass.com generate a complex password for you and then store it under that account.  Very complex passwords ensure much greater security and, in this world of highly adept hackers, we need to use complex passwords all the more.

Click here for a video Lastpass.com has created to provide some basic instructions on this product.