Feeling Targeted By Hackers, Randomize Your Passwords.

[whosoeverjeremy]

Hi Everyone, Jeremy Again.

Here is a Good Strategy to Protect Against Hackers and Cyber Criminals when You Feel One of Your Certain Account is Being Targeted.

Go to This Site or Another Password Generation Site: my.norton.com/extspa/idsafe?path=pwd-gen

Generate a Password with the Criteria Wanted.

If You Want You Can Write Down Your Password or Not Even Have to remember it at all.

You Can Just Reset Your Password Every Time With Your Smart Phone Reset and The Code Sent to Your Phone.

Adios Have A Good One. IJN AMN - Jeremy

 

[for_his_glory]

I keep all my passwords written down and change them every so often.

 

[tim-from-pa]

I often wonder how passwords get "hacked" to begin with unless 1) They are extremely simple such as the name of the person with a "1" behind it, or 2) unless one falls to phishing (which is not technically a software problem no matter what guards one has in place). The latter may be done if the person thinks they are on a certain site which in fact was spoofed and then they type in their user name and password only to get a reply message such as "site down Try again later" and the other end sees what was typed. So if that happens then change it immediately. But most spoofing is done by legitimate looking emails where one clicks on a link with a phony log in and password. I never click on links but rather go directly to the supposed site I already have bookmarked and check.

Brute force hacks are still time consuming and a good site will lock the account after so many attempts for 15 minutes. If one looks at the odds of guessing an 8 character password, the combinations of even that is astronomical. So if software hacking is done at the site level, then all I have to say is their software is not very secure. My account password was exposed at one Christian site apparently they did not encrypt it at all because I discovered the hack on Credit Karma and they showed the first 4 digits but there's no evidence they ever logged in. Now how could they know that if I never told anyone and it was a different password than all my others?