Change Passwords Often – Hotmail Phished
October 7th, 2009
Fox News reports that thousands of users’ logon credentials and some private data was compromised by hackers phishing Hotmail’s website.
This is another reminder (I’m included as well) to be vigilant.
- Keep separate passwords for different sites (e.g. – Google/Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.)
- Include a mixture of lowercase, uppercase, numerals and, if the site supports it, a special character or two (e.g. – #, !, $, etc.)
- Change your passwords on a regular basis.
One idea might be to change your passwords once a month, on payday or at least as often as you remember. If you have to carry around a list of different passwords then that’s better than using all the same passwords and never changing them.
