Friday, October 2, 2009

Keep your E-mail id and Password Secure


Ohk lets come to the point without beating around the bush. Many of us have same passwords for all our social networking sites, email accounts, paypal and many more.

I was also one of those who did this mistake and one day some hacker was able to hack in my email account and from there within a day he was controlling all my online identity, my paid paypal and rapidshare accounts. But i was lucky and the hacker just left a message and you have been Hacked but didnt change the password . so i was able to regain them.

BUT I KNOW MANY PPL WHO WERE NOT AS LUCKY AS I WAS.

why do we keep same passwords for all our accounts??

because we are afraid that we might forget the passwords if we keep too many.

wot if i say you can keep as many passwords as you want but you will never forget any password??

dont believe me??

read it….

Ultimate Trick to get Secure Passwords

This has ben my secret for about a year but anything for my readers :) .

A secure and a memorable password is supposed to be simple for you to remember, and hard for others to guess.

Everywhere you have to use your password to login or register at a site. Whether it’s the dozens of web sites that crave you log in to use them, or your ATM card PIN, how do you decide on a new password? More importantly, how do you remember that?

Don’t use the same password for every site.

The problem with using the same password for everything you do is that if it’s compromised and someone finds it, the rest of your identity is at risk. for example if your email account has a security breach or you may have been tricked into lossing your password , potentially thieves will not only compromise your email account but also your Online bank account or Paypal acc or maybe your Facebook account because you are using the same password for all of them.

Use 1 Rule Set for all your Passwords

You do not need to remember all your passwords if you have 1 rule set for generating them. One Trick to get unique and easy-to-remember passwords is to choose a base password and then apply a rule that includes the name of the service in it. For example, let’s say your base password is “XITA.” Then your password for Gmail would be “XITAGMAIL”, and your password for Paypal would be .XITAPYPL

You can use many other great combinations along this same rule (say, your initials and a favorite number) plus the first three letters of your service. so my password for Yahoo would be Pk1YAHO. Including Special Chars will be better.

Choosing your Rule Set (Base Password)

You can use anything in it , maybe your favourite song like take Beyonce’s “All the single ladies” so my rule set can be ATSL and you can add the services name , your fav number , maybe a special charachter too. so it can be like ATSL56YAHO&.

Before you decide your Password rule set, keep in mind that every service has different password requirements in terms of length and charachters allowed, you should go for a 8 letter password which has both upper and lower class alphabets & numbers or maybe a special charachter “!@#$%^&*()”.

You can generate 100’s of unique passes.

KEEP YOU ONLINE IDENTITY SECURE.
USE DIFFERENT PASSWORDS FOR EACH ACCOUNT .
BE HAPPY

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