Internet nowadays, people are using them not only for chatting, web-surfing, information searching and sending/receiving e-mails. The Internet today plays important roles too in dealing with many important activities such as bankings, payments, and even sending/receiving private and confidential information between individuals or companies for various purposes.
All these activities need to be highly secured or else, the information might fall into hands of anonymous that will misuse them, causing huge losses to ourselves. However, all such activities such as e-mail accessing or online banking require password which is only known to individuals that own them to access. But, people are not aware that their accounts can be easily hacked if they used simple passwords to protect their accounts.
According to a research done by Information Week on an analysis of 28,000 passwords from a popular website, many people use their own name as their passwords, numbers such as 1234, and even the word "password" itself as the password to access the accounts. Such passwords are too easy to be hacked and people who use such passwords are exposing themselves to extreme risks of letting their private information stolen
Thus, it is important to have a strong password, I mean a password that is not made up of simple words that can be easily guessed or hacked. The best way will be using a combination of letters and numbers to make up your password. so that it will not be easily hacked. The longer the password, the better strength it has and of course, do remember the password yourself too.
It is not so safe to write down a long password in a note and keep it in your wallet or notebook as just in case, you will lose and reveal your password to whoever that got your wallet and combined with other confidential information that contain in your wallet, such as banking account number, sorry is the only word I can say to you. Don't worry as online service provider will always have an insurance policy in case you forgot your password.
(For example, this is the homepage of Facebook. The circled words above the blank for filling in the username's password is used for requesting the password to send to your email just in case you forgot your password to access the website, but of course don't forgot your password for accesing your e-mail too. Another way to increase the security is add another question upon accessing to the website after completing entering the correct password The purpose is to increase the strenght of the security, not only relying only on password to protect your privacy. The question must be matched with the correct answer for you to gain access to the website or else, entry will be denied.
It is important to protect the privacy of our personal information from being leaked to outsiders that might misuse them for their own advantages and causes losses to ourselves. Thus, prevention steps need to be taken seriously, especially when determining a password to entering your online banking account for example.
LOL. I think it's not the matter of using easy or short password. I think it's the matter of people whether they could remember a long password. Not only one! but many also.
ReplyDeleteMe myself have forgotten even the shortest password i use. :)
Thanks for sharing btw