Online security tips: how to protect your passwords
TechnologyDaily experience shows that online security tips to protect your passwords are necessary even when general security precautions are very easy to establish.
So I want to ask you if you would ever do the following: jump into a big pool with sharks, even after you cut yourself and have a bleeding wound?
I was just wondering if that would be you.
Probably not, however, instead of using online security tips, this is what a lot of all kinds of Internet users do, even if they know there is a risk that some scammer could take their poorly protected passwords and access your important files.
It is a fact that even the smallest child in school could have access to the passwords of their classmates, teachers, parents and others. Forgetting to take this into account is like thinking:
“Very good but this is not going to happen to me, maybe to my neighbor, but never to me!”
That attitude is not going to help you when your password is out in the open, your money disappears from your bank accounts, someone using your identity suddenly shows up with a huge debt they’re asking you to pay, your secret files suddenly show up on Facebook or your competitor, and ideas and the products you’ve been working on for so long are suddenly promoted by someone who luckily found them in your archives.
Here are my online security tips on how to protect your passwords.
The first place to secure and protect your passwords and provide online security is where you are in control: your own computer and whatever security you decide to provide there.
There are some absolutely obvious things to do that everyone knows about, but doesn’t respect enough to implement yet. Anyway, I will mention them here just to make sure you get it and also to add some other important tips.
1: Make your password as difficult as possible to hack.
- So what does that mean? At least ten digits that are a combination of numbers, letters, and symbols. It is much more difficult for hackers to crack a long password with this combination.
- Your passwords do not contain your name, social security number, your date of birth, your bank account number, or any other personal information.
- You can add a keyboard combination and toggle with uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Your password is something you can remember but it is not easy for others to guess.
- Be careful where you store your passwords if they are hard to remember and how you store them, which means: Do not write your pin number on your debit/credit card in permanent ink on the card itself.
2: Don’t use the same password everywhere you need a password.
- If a scammer finds your password in one place, the next thing to do is try to use the same password elsewhere in your online system, which can result in access to everything you have on and off the Internet.
- To make it easier for you to remember the password, try using variations of the same password.
3: Change your password frequently.
Some people change important passwords to their bank accounts or special files at least once every two months. Other places you can protect yourself by changing your password two to four times a year.
4: Do not write down your passwords, bank account numbers and likes in emails, on Facebook and other social networks.
5: Never tempt anyone by being careless at the ATM.
Always use the safest closed ATMs.
So if you still have the attitude, “Tough, but this doesn’t happen to me,” think about your family or others who depend on you and your online safety.
The way you protect your passwords makes a difference.
These online security tips don’t even cost you anything, just a few recurring actions on your part a couple of times a year to protect your passwords.
I hope this is helpful and if you want to know more please check out my blog Online Business Web-Trotters where you can find more information and online safety tips.
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