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Question about using a password manager versus my old notebook
I kept all my passwords in a little notebook by my desk for years, but after my neighbor's kid got hacked last month, I tried Bitwarden. The auto-fill and strong password generator saved me from three phishing attempts my browser missed. Has anyone else made a switch like this and found it stopped something bad?
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dianam195mo ago
Did you ever catch a fake site before the password manager did?
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sarahpark5mo ago
That phishing attempt part is so real... my old email got hit by one of those fake login pages last year. I typed my password right in before I noticed the weird URL. Switched to a manager after that and now it just... doesn't fill on the fake sites. It's like having a guard that checks the address for you.
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jason_davis5mo ago
My buddy fell for a fake PayPal page that looked perfect except the URL said "paypa1-login.com". He lost like two hundred bucks before he froze his card. Now he won't even click a link without pasting it into a notepad app first.
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dianam195mo ago
My bank actually sends test phishing emails to customers. I failed the first one because the sender name looked legit.
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