Computer Help and Support

I found an email address or two or three that had been grabbed form attacks on Yahoo, LinkedIn and Docuserve among others.

Some passwords were compromised since IT morons stored them in unencrypted plain text. I changed them and never used them again.

If you ask me, there are two big rules.

• Do NOT use a simple easy to guess password, like your birthday or your birthday plus the mandatory letter or symbol. Doesn't Facebook grab your birthday and broadcast it?

• Do NOT use the same password at more than one site. Hackers play that game to crack multiple accounts once they get one.

Three

• Use a password manager. That will let you use passwords 14 or more characters long that you can't remember, and which hackers need days of cracking to unencrypt. They go for the low-hanging fruit ( dumb passwords)

Social engineering is a big deal. Phishing tries to get you to type in your password to them or to get you to download malware.

I have posted about this and hope that others will post more. AI is making phishing incredibly slick, effective, and lots cheaper to do in recent months and years.

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