LastPass has been my trusted choice of password manager, but they have now confirmed a security breach on their network. The company said there is no evidence that user's vault data/stored passwords were taken, however, the hacker did manage to take away user email addresses, authentication hashes, password reminders and server per user salts.

Lastpass has been my choice of password-manager for years and it has never failed to deliver. Recently, after updating to Firefox 37.02 the Lastpass addon started showing error as below. Clicking the `Ignore` button made the error go away with no consequences to the functionality of the utility, however this was annoying and I got it fixed by upgrading to a new PRE-BUILD of the Firefox as shared ahead.

"Assertion failed!
Program: ...com\platform\WINNIT_x86-msvc\components\lpxpcom.dll
File: e:\cygwin64\home\joe\crypto++\secblock.h
Line: 197
Expression: m_allocated
(for info on how your program caused an assertion failure, see documentation, etc)"


Disappointed with not only the design but overall package of the new Apple iPhone 6, I finally gave it a ditch and went for Xiaomi Mi4. The phone is not available in India but importing the device from HongKong costed me roughly $450 (Rs. 28000/-) and I am very satisfied to get such a brilliant phone for almost half the cost of an iPhone6.

Xiaomi phones are also known for their popular MiUI Android interface, and I installed the latest MiUI 6 Beta having Google Android 4.4.4 under the hood. MiUI 6 comes pre-installed with an excellent Security app which features an Anti-malware Scanner, System Cleaner, Data Monitor, Call/SMS Spam Blocker, Battery Manager and an excellent permission manager which lets you take control of which apps have root access and other permissions. Having Android allows you to do a lot more like LastPass Auto Login feature for applications, this however failed to work on MiUI6 and always timed-out as shown below, thankfully the fix was easy as instructed next.

There are quite a variety of good cross-platform password managers, but freeware LastPass is my choice amongst all as reviewed earlier.

Apart from the fully featured Free version, there is also a LastPass Premium offering. The paid premium upgrade provides users with additional features like mobile access via apps for Android, Apple iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone etc., multifactor authentication and priority support. The good news is LastPass is giving away free premium accounts, just follow the instructions posted ahead.

Freeware multi-platform and multi-browser password managers like LastPass not only makes your life easier filling passwords but also saves your time filling forms.

Recently my LastPass installation developed a strange bug after update to Firefox 8 Beta - instead of real decoded values it started filling out strange encrypted login data resulting in failing logins. Luckily, I was able to get rid of this problem using the simple trick posted below.

Managing online passwords across different computers, browsers and operating systems can be very tricky, the developers at LastPass Corportation seems to have heard our prayers and developed LastPass - a free cross-browser, multi-platform secure password manager, currently in BETA the service is simply amazing, far better then any free password manager out there.

Lastpass is pretty easy to install and provides plugins for Firefox (All platforms) and Internet Explorer (Safari support coming soon), LastPass allows importing from all major password managers including Firefox, Internet Explorer, RoboForm, Keepass, Password Safe, and MyPasswordSafe, Once imported all data is encrypted locally using one way salted hashes making using of strong AES encryption, this encrypted file is then stored on Lastpass servers allowing you to sync your password data on different computers using Windows, Mac, or Linux.