Now more than ever before passwords need to be cryptic, obscure and impenetrable.
Businesses with sophisticated IT security get hacked, just imagine how easy it might be to hack your data.
The greatest threat to individuals using the internet is identity theft via access to personal and unique data. Email accounts are hacked regularly to target personal information and so too are computer files hacked, revealing banking details, and passwords. Hackers once inside your PC, can leave malicious code which will attach itself to your files and spread to other PC's that might have cause to share these files.
You could be responsible for unwittingly passing on malicious code, and this is just what hackers intend, they rely very heavily on the viral nature of computing.
People are still using easy to remember passwords configured from family names, street names or believe it or not, simply their surname followed by 123.
Yikes, talk about sitting ducks!
Here's a video below that attempted to address the question of setting secure passwords in 2009.
I'm certain you appreciate that this information is NOW OUT OF DATE!
Check it out for basic information.
However for up-to-date information our sister website Virtual Assistants in Wales, has posted a blog about encryption of passwords which provides more recent information on sophisticated and safer strategies to use for data protection.
Keep safe, secure and above all happy using IT in your daily activities.
