\nEssentially, your email is the key to your online world.\u00a0 Keep your email password secret, and hard to guess.\u00a0 Make sure it’s not one of these commonly used (and easily guessed) 25 most common passwords of 2014<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Nor one that someone could guess if they knew a bit about you (e.g. the name of your street, your pet or a family member).<\/p>\n
If a hacker can’t guess your password, then maybe they can trick you into telling them.\u00a0 They’ll lure you to a fake website masquerading as a genuine one, and ask you to log in.\u00a0 As you try to log in, you’ll key in your password, and they’ll record that against your email address.\u00a0 Even worse, if you try to log in and fail, then you might think you’ve made a mistake and try your other most commonly used passwords in a futile attempt to log into the fake site, giving the hacker plenty of clues to guess your email password.\u00a0 (That’s one reason why all those fake ‘phishing’ emails are sent to you about banking accounts, courier packages etc – they are just trying to get you to log into their fake websites)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The best passwords are ones that are hard for you to remember, complex (a mix of upper and lower case, letters, numbers and symbols) and that are regularly changed.\u00a0 Take care and be on your guard! A bit of extra vigilance can avoid a world of problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"