Password Creation and Security

Password Creation and Security.

Let me ask you this, have you ever used your email address to:

Signup for; Craigslist, Facebook, Online Banking, Subject Forums or any other sites where you would have to give up your email address to use the site? When the website asked you for a password did you happen to use the same password as your email account? Oops!!

If you said yes to both of those you need to follow the steps below like yesterday!

Well we cant change our email address because lets face it, changing email addresses is like moving houses; if your change of address does not go smoothly you miss out on all kinds of email which could hurt your bottom line. So we are going to have to change our current password for all sites that we access on a daily basis.

Ideally we want to have a different password for everything so if a breach was to occur damage would be minimal. Let me give you a example:

I have a Craigs list account, I have a email address that I use for everything. The email address is 101@101.com. And my current password for my email and my Craigs List is 12345. We need to change the password for my email as well.

You need to remember a lot of passwords but this trick will help out a lot.

Take the first x about of letters, craigslist.org, I am going to use the first 6 "craigs". Now those 6 letters will be the secondary portion of the password, the first portion you come up with, if can be anything you want. I will pick "djwn5#". now I have 2 strings.

Now I want to combine the 2 in a way that will be the same for all sites I sign up for in the future. I'm going to do "djwcraigston5#", and this will be my new password for craigs.org. and if I was using Gmail.com for my email I would have a password of "djwGmail5#".

This little tip will help you from getting hacked!