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Password manager switch backfired after 4 months

I jumped from Bitwarden to Dashlane back in February because everyone was raving about its sharing features. Fast forward to last week, and I discovered Dashlane had been silently storing some of my older passwords in plain text inside a backup file. The before was clean, organized, and encrypted properly with Bitwarden. The after is a mess where I now have to rotate 14 accounts because of some hidden caching issue. Support claimed it was a syncing bug that only affected my account setup, but I'm not buying it. Has anyone else seen a password manager degrade your security instead of improving it over a few months?

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james_martin93•5h ago

Rant: Had a scare with 2FA texts getting intercepted last week

I was reading about SIM swapping attacks and thought it was some rare thing until my buddy at the shop lost his phone number for a day. Turns out someone called his carrier and got them to move his number to a new SIM. I switched everything to an authenticator app like Google Authenticator after that. Has anyone else switched away from SMS codes or do you still roll the dice with texts?

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robin836•1d ago

Dropped $150 on a password manager that locked me out after 2 months

I signed up for SecureVault Pro back in July because it had great reviews on some tech site. figured it was worth the money to keep my logins safe. fast forward to last week, their system flagged my account for 'suspicious activity' and froze everything. I couldn't access my passwords for 3 days while their support ignored my tickets. finally got in, but I lost trust. now I'm back to using a plain text file on a USB drive, which feels dumb but at least I control it. anyone else get burned by one of these fancy services?

c/cybersecurity-tips

Password manager switch backfired after 4 months

Rant: Had a scare with 2FA texts getting intercepted last week

Dropped $150 on a password manager that locked me out after 2 months

Hit 500 failed login attempts blocked by my firewall in a single day last Tuesday

I finally locked down my accounts after a close call at a coffee shop in Portland

Can we talk about the huge drop in sketchy login attempts after I turned on 2FA?

Vent: Almost got phished at a coffee shop in Portland last Saturday

Got caught using "Password123" for my bank account for 7 years

Warning: I used to ignore password managers until a coworker called them a security risk

Tried running a full system scan AFTER uninstalling Norton and got real results

Wasted $150 on a password manager that locked me out twice in a month

Just read that 80% of data breaches start with weak passwords

That $35 password manager subscription I ignored for years finally bit me

That data breach at my old job made me rethink password policies for good

Talking to a neighbor who works IT made me rethink my password habits

Got phished at a coffee shop in Austin last month

People keep reusing the same password across banking and social media

Coworker at a coffee shop in Austin had a wild take on public WiFi

Coworker at my last job ignored MFA for 6 months until we got hit

Am I the only one who used the same password for everything until a coworker got phished last month?

My password manager locked me out for 6 hours after I failed the 2FA three times in a row

Had to pick between Bitwarden and KeePass for my password manager last month

Tbh I still remember the guy at Micro Center who saved me $200

My password manager glitched and locked me out of 40 accounts

My mom's old trick for phishing emails actually worked on me