Saturday, May 3, 2008

5 Mistakes You Might Be Making When Choosing A Password

Are you make yourself a target for fraud? Increasingly, I am hearing stories of people who have their accounts hacked. They were stolen money, lost sleep, spent hours creating new accounts, or their credit destroyed. Do not let this happen to you.
Are you do these dangerous mistakes?
Mistake 1: Using the same password for all accounts.
Please do not do this. Use different passwords for each email account, and, of course, to use unique passwords for buying web sites where you enter your credit card.
Mistake 2: Short passwords
The risk someone to guess your password is becoming more difficult characters in it. So, go to the gusto and make your passwords long.
Mistake 3: BradPitt, Charlie, Sarah, Princess, Barbie, Gandolf - I think whether it still?
Do not to use children& 39;s names, pet& 39;s name, nicknames, names from characters in books or movies or the names of celebrities. Even if I do not think it on my list, someone knows that you could.
Mistake 4: easy to remember English words
Easy remembered as easily guessed. Passwords should not contain English words found in a dictionary. In addition to the English words or any words in any dictionary have a high risk as well. And, for goodness sakes, if your password " password & quot; " or test & quot;, it is surprising you have not yet been hacked!
Mistake 5: Numbers are no-no.
Seriously, stay away from birth, anniversaries, addresses, Social Security numbers or telephone numbers. They are too easily guessed.
Choose random passwords for banking websites, such as PayPal. Combine letters (both upper and lower) and numbers.
If all this sounds too difficult to remember, then consider using Password programme. Most good password program will not only store the passwords on your computer, but they will generate a totally random passwords when necessary.
Here are a few to try.
http: / / www.fgroupsoft.com/Traysafe/
http: / / passwordsafe.sourceforge.net /
http: / / www.treepad.com/treepadsafe/
It never in time to see what someone stolen money from you -- - Or locked you out of your own email account. This is a waste of time and money. Please protect themselves.



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