DO IT: Monthly, or as necessary.
This is pretty simple. Change your passwords and change ‘em often.
An easy way for you to protect your sensitive data and email is to change your passwords on a monthly basis or even more often depending
DO IT: Monthly, or as necessary.
This is pretty simple. Change your passwords and change ‘em often.
An easy way for you to protect your sensitive data and email is to change your passwords on a monthly basis or even more often depending on how frequently you use computers away from home.
If you log on to your email on any remote computer – such as at the library or in cyber cafes – then the possibility exists that the computer could have a key-stroking virus present.
What this means to you is that everything you type into the computer (passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc.) could be logged and used by someone else.
Just as important as changing your password is choosing good passwords. Let’s talk about what makes a good password and what makes a bad one.
Bad passwords are passwords that most people use because they are easiest to remember! But keep in mind they are also the first things a hacker will try when they try to target you.
Bad Passwords include:
- Your phone number(s)
- Your Social Security number
- Your address
- Your birth date, or any birthday of someone in your immediate family
- Any form of your name, your spouse’s name, children, grandchildren, or pets
- Any names of people you know — especially your kids.
- Any month of the year
- Any word in any
cracking dictionary.” There are lists of words that “crackers” use to try to crack passwords: passwords that a