Expert: Precautions LastPass Users After Purchase LogMeIn

Last Friday it was announced that the popular online password manager LastPass for an amount of $ 125 million was taken, but the new owner LogMeIn has caused some users worry. Reported that the Australian security expert Troy Hunt.

LogMeIn is a company that offers software that allows remote access to computers can be obtained. The company's image is not flawless. So let LogMeIn in 2011 that LogMeIn would always be free. Last year, however, the company announced the end of LogMeIn Free on. Another point is that the LogMeIn software is often used by telephone scammers posing as Microsoft employees. In early 2012 Hunt attention to the issue. "Unfortunately, three years later LogMeIn continues to be the preferred software of these crooks," he tells.

According to Hunt many people are also concerned about the direction that LastPass for the acquisition will go up. "Even though they say that the password manager remains independent and is not influenced, they now fall within a broader business vision and LogMeIn will influence the direction of LastPass," said security expert. He therefore anxious for LastPass users a roadmap put online that explains how simple of LastPass can be switched to 1Password, another popular password manager.

LastPass Password Manager For Acquired 125 Million

Online password manager LastPass is today a cost of $ 125 million acquired by LogMeIn, a provider of software to log on to remote computers. LastPass is a cloud service where users their passwords for various websites in a "safe" to store.

The vault is then accessible from different devices, which should simplify logging in from a PC, smartphone or tablet. LastPass offers both free and paid versions of the software. In August there was a still a new use model introduced. Users can therefore choose which platform they want to use the software for free. Previously, users could install the password manager free only on their computers and then make it synchronize smartphone or tablet to be paid.

Both the free and paid versions LastPass will continue to support and further develop, so the company says. The software of Load Pass will now be added to the solutions of LogMeIn. Furthermore, users can expect in the coming months several new features. In June, LastPass was still a security incident to make. Attackers had managed to break into the network of online password manager and managed in order to steal users' data. It involved email addresses, reminders for passwords, user salts per server and authentication hashes. The contents of password vault would have been in no danger.