re: Password Protection

Bitwarden Password Manager

I prefer Bitwarden for password management but there are a lot of good ones out there. Pick one.

Turn on MFA on EVERY account that supports it and NEVER re-use the same password. Every password used should be unique, long, and complex. Longer is more important than complex, though.

If you want to go a mile further, create a new email account then add an alias on it. Only expose the alias to the world since an alias cannot be used as a username to login to email (on most email services). For example, create an email account such as user1@email.com. That will be the username you will use to login to email.com. Then, create an alias such as alias@email.com. When you sign up for services such as tigerdroppings.com, use alias@email.com since it can direct email back to user1@email.com but cannot be used to login to your email.com account. While this technique will not cut down on phishing and SPAM, it will prevent a lot of brute force attacks. Stay safe.