If you're worried about protecting your online identity from hackers a password manager like 1Password is a good place to start, but setting up an account is only half the battle. Most of these services feature extra security features that you may not be taking advantage of.

The US government recently revamped its password recommendations, abandoning its endorsement of picking a favourite phrase and replacing a couple characters with symbols, like c4tlo^eR. These short, hard-to-read passwords look complicated to humans but very very simple to computers.

Last week, we reported on a known security flaw in open source password manager KeePass 2. The software's creator had refused to fix the issue but it seems he has now done a backflip and issued a patch in the latest update of the software. Here are the details.