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if you're watching this there's a good chance using the same password over and over again and I'm here to tell you that is not a good idea let me tell you what happened to me a few years ago definitely headed nowhere and sit in my password let you know how long this wasn't it Zappala snapped I don't even know what even act because I use the same password to get in again buddy that was countless more of it it was my Instagram account Facebook account and so if we end up with a password exposed hey girl thanks get another security breach I'm gonna show you how to start secure here accounts the most important thing we can do is use different passwords for different services it sounds really complicated at heart remember but it's not we needed to nap hold a password manager something that can remember all of your usernames and passwords and automatically plug in straight as websites they're really really handy and pretty easy to use once they get set up there are a bunch of options out there like one password and dashlane but for this video we're gonna talk about LastPass because it's completely free and it works on basically every platform Windows Mac iOS Android even Chrome OS so you'll be able to use it no matter where you are you sign up the first thing you'll be asked to do is create a master password this is what you'll type to log into LastPass and basically it's the only password you'll ever have to remember so you better make it a gateway now another thing being the probably character letter a number they make that oh into a zero don't forget all of that what you want something that's long but you need to remember so instead of a password think passphrase something like excitable wizard tomato-based machine you're not gonna forget that but it's gonna be really hard for a hacker who's guessing password after pastor after password to figure out okay so what are the hacker is actually doing here we asked Russell Brandon before the cyber security reporter to find out so imagine a big breach like the one that hit Yahoo in 2013 hackers got log ins and hashed passwords for a billion accounts now that's a lot of people and it's a huge problem for everybody even outside of Yahoo suppose you've got a scam going and you need to hack a bunch of Facebook accounts if you can by unhatched Yahoo passwords on a criminal marketplace you can use a tool like century MBA to run all 1 billion those passwords against Facebook and see which of them work if you're lucky you get wanting a thousand before a breach as big as Yahoo that's a million password of course Facebook will get suspicious if one computer is putting in millions of passwords a second so the program's get clever using botnets to spread the logins out over millions of IP addresses using different profiles and different browser fingerprints so each one looks like a different user it's an arms race between hackers trying to use the passwords and services trying to stop but at the end of the day the ones that work for legitimate passwords back services can only do so much to keep hackers out and that's why you want to use different passwords with each account because even if we end up in a big breach like yahoo your other accounts will still be safe alright so now you need to go about changing all of your passwords I Spence can actually help you out a bit by automatically importing any passwords you already have saved you browser and even as a button they'll automatically change some of those passwords but it doesn't always work and you're probably gonna have to enter some of these manually which can take a little bit of time say you're ready to secure your Facebook account you'll find the change password screen and then LastPass of all this little button up here with corner of the box you just click on that and LastPass will be able to generate and fill in a big long complicated password for you that's ok because you're never gonna have to remember it wants to save the LastPass it'll be there forever and that's it fortunately you don't have to do this all at once and honestly I'd recommend waiting a few days before you add you know your bank account or your email address just to make sure you have a hang of it just you know it's gonna be a little bit more work on mobile because even have to copy your password as the last best app and into whatever you're signing into but it's worth the effort ok so that'll actually make you more secure than most but there's one more step you can do to make your accounts even safer it's called 2-step authorization and you should set that up too usually what this means is that when you go to log into a website the website will text a shortcode to your phone and you have to enter that code as well as your password to get logged in the idea is that even if a hacker has your password they'll also need to steal your phone in order to break into your account which is gonna be a lot more work yes this will make logging in to take a few seconds longer but it's much more secure and you'll feel a little bit like a secret agent every time you get a special code sent to you at least that's how I feel some quick words are warning about all of this first of all never forget your master password seriously if you do you're gonna be locked out of everything some accounts will give you a backup code make sure you hang on to it and on even if you do take both of these steps you're never gonna be 100% impossible to hack it's just not gonna happen even two-factor systems can and are being breached but if you take these steps you're still gonna make it much harder for somebody to get into your account where they're not supposed to and with more and more of our lives moving online that's increasingly important and it's definitely worth the effort so you guys my facebook account your my Instagram account and