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by Arnolzh Cafe
People are lazy by nature. This is true especially as far
as choosing passwords are concern. When we sign up for online
services such as e-mail, chat, etc. we for the purpose of
convenience opt to choose the easier to remember passwords
e.g. batman, superman. Moreover, we use this as passwords
to all of the sites that require the use of it. After reading
this perhaps you may want to reconsider your choices of passwords.
One method of hacking is called brute forcing wherein a certain
software tries to guess the password you are using by matching
it with a wordlist. A wordlist is a text file, which is a
list of passwords commonly used by people.
Bottom line is don’t use ordinary passwords. It would be
better if you use a combination of lowercase and uppercase
letters, and numbers. X25sUpErMan34 for example would be a
good password. Furthermore, another safety measure would be
to use different passwords for different sign ups. Imagine
if a hacker were able to hack your password for yahoo and
you used the same password for hotmail then you probably would
have guessed what would happened.
Another security tool is installing a firewall. There are
several freeware firewalls in the web today. Search for one
in search engines (google, yahoo) and look at software reviews
to see which is the better one to use. Configured correctly,
firewalls will protect you from portscan, denial of service
attacks, Trojans, etc.
About the Author:
Arnolzh Cafe may be contacted at http://www.mukamo.com
. Arnolzh A. Cafe is a civil engineer from the Philippines.
He is the creator of two successful yahoogroups and the webmaster
of a newly created site http://www.mukamo.com which caters
to all Filipinos worldwide.
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