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Image: Chris Wickershamįor first time users the application provides a quick and easy process for creating accounts from within the application. Longtime users of LastPass will find a familiar interface when they launch the application and setup requires nothing more than entering your existing username and password. With tight integration to Yosemite’s Spotlight functionality, LastPass now promises to become an important part of your daily computing routine. Long available as a browser plugin on the Windows, Linux, and OS X platforms, Tuesday morning LastPass made a free, native application available for OS X through the App Store. Hopefully by now you’re already using some sort of password management tool but if you aren’t, it’s a great time to look into my favorite tool of the bunch, LastPass.

The hope is that a leaked password from an online merchant won’t compromise your bank account or your email provider.

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The basic premise of these types of tools is, “one password to rule them all.” You create one good, strong password and use it to unlock a vault full of sites and application-specific passwords.

Unfortunately, that’s a task too difficult even for many of us geeks to undertake without the help of tools like 1Password, LastPass, Password Safe, and KeePass. What is necessary in today’s world is a unique, strong password for each account we support. With the recent outbreak of high-profile hacks making headlines none of us can afford to take a lackadaisical approach to security and protecting all of our sensitive data with a password like monkey or dragon isn’t going to cut it any longer.