{"id":1191,"date":"2017-02-22T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:34:54","slug":"manage-your-passwords-with-keepass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Manage Your Passwords with KeePass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/keepass_logo.png\" alt=\"KeePass logo\" width=\"125\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Creating and keeping track of your passwords is no easy task. They need to meet a lengthy set of criteria in order to be secure. They should be at least eight characters long, and include a capital letter, and a number, and a symbol. And they shouldn\u2019t include any personal information, like your name or birthdate, or any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/01\/26\/most-common-passwords-revealed---and-theyre-ridiculously-easy-to\/\">common password elements<\/a>. Oh, and as a reminder, you shouldn\u2019t reuse passwords for multiple services.<\/p>\n<p>So, once you\u2019ve got all that covered, the hardest part might be remembering your passwords for each online service you use. To help solve this problem, Simmons Technology provides password management software called KeePass, an open-source password manager that helps you to create and store a database of your passwords and only allows access using a single master password.<\/p>\n<p>KeePass is installed on all Simmons-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\/articles\/index.php?action=showEntry&amp;data=2490\">Windows<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\/articles\/index.php?action=showEntry&amp;data=6078\">Mac\u00a0<\/a>computers. To install KeePass on your personal computer, you can download it at <a href=\"http:\/\/keepass.info\/\">KeePass.info<\/a> (for Windows) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keepassx.org\/\">KeePassX.org<\/a> (for Mac).<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to use KeePass or another password management tool, please be mindful of phishing attempts via email and never give your master password to anyone. As a reminder, Simmons Technology will never ask you for your password and we\u2019ll never send you a link with a request to change your password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating and keeping track of your passwords is no easy task. They need to meet a lengthy set of criteria in order to be secure. They should be at least eight characters long, and include a capital letter, and a number, and a symbol. And they shouldn\u2019t include any personal information, like your name or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[351,353],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-351","tag-353"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}