With the increased frequency and destructiveness of cyberattacks, it’s a wonder that people still depend on passwords to protect their personal data. With hundreds of data breaches occurring every year, it’s important you take even further precautions than just a really strong password.
Here are some tips and alternatives you can try to buff up your privacy protection online!
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Having a strong password is a cybersecurity essential. It acts as the last layer of defense that protects your information from malicious cybercriminals. But how do hackers really obtain your passwords? Behind the scenes, hackers have created numerous tricks to access your personal information.
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Coming up with a good password can leave a lot of us scratching our heads. A lot of specific requirements and random characters – it’s definitely a hassle we can all relate to.
While opting for a simple password might seem like the easy way around it, you’re doing yourself more harm than good. Quick and simple passwords are always easier to remember, but it also makes it quicker and easier for hackers to crack and gain access to your accounts.
If you’re concerned that your passwords aren’t strong enough, here’s a list of 2019’s worst passwords to give you an idea of what not to pick as your password, plus some pointers on maximizing your password’s strength
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21 million logins for Top 500 firms were found on the Dark Web – a part of the internet that cannot be located via conventional search engines like Google and is often used as a marketplace for criminal activity.
If one of your online accounts have been hacked recently, then it’s possible that your account login and password may have been obtained by hackers via the dark web.
Keep reading to learn how this happened, and how to prevent it from happening to you.
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Are you using one of the Worst Passwords ever?
Choosing a password can be a very stressful event. The worry between “not secure enough” and “much too complicated” looms over us all.
To simplify this process, we suggest trying one of our niftiest tricks: …
