Tips on Keeping Your Facebook Password Safe
Ten years ago, when browsing the web, you might have had just one password to store for your email address. These days though it’s not unusual to have dozens of passwords created for innumerable web services that you’re a customer of. And you can guess what happens : A good many people tend to use the same password over and over. Some individuals may not consider their Facebook account as being hugely vital, but it is if you’re applying the same password for that as you are for your bank account. Of course, the convenience of having to remember just one password is tempting, but what if a hacker gets their mitts on that single password? That’s right, they in theory have their hands on all of the servives you’ve signed up to that use that same password. And if you are tempted to think they can’t know the other online services you’ve signed up to, they don’t need to. They run web application programs which screen tens of thousands of online services against your account name/password pairing that they already have.
It’s a problem, but it’s easily remedied. The truth is, it’s not required to store every username/password. Let your browser do it. Be it your Twitter login or Email password. Just ask your web browser to store each account name/password, and then setup a master password just in case an intruder else gets physical access to your computer. If they do so, they must key in the master password in order to login to any of your services. So in effect, you can join countless services, and only need to actually remember one password : your master password for your web browser.
When creating passwords, make them long and random, for example 8JJJfrfrt65K which is an assortment of lower and upper case characters and numbers. As you don’t need to remember them yourself, be as random as you wish. Whatever you do, don’t use dictionary words as a password, as these are effortless to identify for hackers.
