by phil4 » Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:19 pm
Hi All,
I'd not normally be telling you how to manage your passwords, most of you are bright enough to do that yourselves.
[mention]GraemeW[/mention] noticed some increased traffic to the site, and thought that while we're not likely to be hacked, it might be wise to warn you of the consequences should the worst happen.
The long and short is - don't use the same password here as you do for other sites.
Imagine, if this site was hacked, and the hackers walked off with your password... if you've reused that on Gmail/Hotmail, Facebook, Twitter etc... suddenly the hacker has access to all of your private stuff. Even worse they can then use them and social engineering to get access to other sites you used a different password for (the most basic is password reset request).
If this is new to you, have a look at the many password managers out there (LastPass, dashlane, KeePass etc), that'll help and encourage you to use a different password for every single site, which is the ideal situation. The other thing to look at if possible is 2FA, Google and the like encourage this, and so worth doing where you can.
Hi All,
I'd not normally be telling you how to manage your passwords, most of you are bright enough to do that yourselves.
[mention]GraemeW[/mention] noticed some increased traffic to the site, and thought that while we're not likely to be hacked, it might be wise to warn you of the consequences should the worst happen.
The long and short is - [b]don't use the same password here as you do for other sites. [/b]
Imagine, if this site was hacked, and the hackers walked off with your password... if you've reused that on Gmail/Hotmail, Facebook, Twitter etc... suddenly the hacker has access to all of your private stuff. Even worse they can then use them and social engineering to get access to other sites you used a different password for (the most basic is password reset request).
If this is new to you, have a look at the many password managers out there (LastPass, dashlane, KeePass etc), that'll help and encourage you to use a different password for every single site, which is the ideal situation. The other thing to look at if possible is 2FA, Google and the like encourage this, and so worth doing where you can.