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.
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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.
