A Friendly Reminder To…
Posted on | November 15, 2007 |
Change your passwords! It’s important to update your passwords on a regular basis in order to keep out those pesky hackers and identity thieves.
1. Choose a “strong” password: your password should have numbers, letters and symbols (i.e. 5RT!sm345@). Why? Because these take much longer to hack (see previous post - How Strong Are Your Passwords?).
2. Update your passwords. You should choose different passwords for each site. Here’s a list of top websites or applications that you should update:
- Banking/financial sites (bank, credit card, investing)
- Blog(s)
- Email (all accounts!)
- Gaming/entertainment sites
- Google account (this is the key to everything Google! Email, applications, documents, blogs, etc).
- Home computer
- Insurance/health sites
- Retail sites/PayPal
- Social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, Flickr)
- Subscription/newspaper sites
- Work computer
3. Create a reminder to update your passwords again in a few months. Jot this down in your calendar or set a reminder in Outlook.
Category: Identity Theft
Comments
Leave a Reply