How to Best "Hacker Proof" Your Accounts // Best Practices, Tips and Tricks
Follow along with PC Matic Customer Support technician, James, as he walks you through what to do and what not to do when creating a password.
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Password hygiene is essential to your cyber well-being and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Security breaches containing usernames, passwords, and other personal information happen all the time. That information is sold on the dark web to cyber criminals who use it to access your accounts. If you have not changed your password in a while, you could be a risk of having your account hijacked.
**Things to Remember**
Things NOT to do:
Never make your password something that is easily guessed, like "password," “qwerty," “asdzxc” or "123456"
Never use the same password on multiple sites. If your information is stolen from a data breach that happens on one site, cyber criminals can access any of your accounts that use the same login credentials
Avoid using obvious personal information in your passwords, such as your birthday, anniversary, address, city of birth, high school or relatives’ and pets’ names. If you are required to choose security questions and answers when creating an online account, select ones that are not obvious to someone browsing your social media accounts.
Keep your password under wraps. Don’t give your passwords to anyone else. Don't write your password on a sticky note and stick it on your computer monitor. If you’re storing a list of your passwords on your computer in a document file, name the file something random so it isn’t a dead giveaway to snoopers.
Things TO do:
-Make your password long. Some of the easiest-to-remember passwords aren’t words at all, but are collections of words from a phrase or sentence, perhaps the opening sentence to your favorite novel, or the opening line to a good joke, the length is key.
INCLUDE NUMBERS, SYMBOLS, AND UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE LETTERS.
Use a combination of numbers, symbols and uppercase and lowercase letters. Randomly mix up symbols and numbers with letters. You could substitute a zero for the letter O or @ for the letter A, for example. If your password is a phrase, consider capitalizing the first letter of each new word, which will be easier for you to remember.
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