Do you want to know the most effective way to protect your private information? It sounds simple, but it’s incredibly effective: You must get good at managing your passwords. Here are three of the best things you can do to protect yourself:
Change your passwords often. This seems obvious, right? But just consider the recent Heartbleed development. It’s an online security problem that’s giving IT people headaches because the open source code used across more than half of the Internet makes the server memory (RAM) vulnerable to hackers. Stay one step ahead of hackers by changing your passwords often. Use ‘strong’ passwords with not only letters, but symbols and numbers as well.
Don’t use the same passwords across multiple sites. If one gets breached, they’ll all become insecure.
Password protect ALL of your devices. Are you walking around using a smartphone without a lock on it? If you’re staying logged in to an email account, for example, anyone who finds your phone can access it.
