Time to re-evaluate your logon credentials, update your passwords – if you haven’t been doing this on a regular – and think about your general security on the “web”
Follow some simple rules or thoughts –
- Only use a password once on an individual account
- Do not use the same password across different accounts
- Make each password “complex” and hard to guess
- Suggest three random words strung together; you can add any other characters between, before of after to make it more difficult to guess
- Use a “password manager” –
- It will store each password in an encrypted data file
- You only have to remember the one “master” password for this file
- The manager will “auto-type” your login for you
- The manager can generate 50+ character long passwords (which you will not need to remember)
- After this first level of security – add a “multi factor” level
- Many different types of MFA or 2FA are available – normally an additional code is sent through to another device