Tips for keeping your password safe and secure
★ Trevor Wood ★
★I help people and organisations protect themselves from cyber attacks★Ethical hacker★Cybersecurity consultant★Web developer★Speaker and trainer
We have loads of website we log in to these days – I have somewhere around a thousand. That’s a thousand possible places that hackers could get my password from and try to use elsewhere. So I have to keep my passwords safe and secure.
Why password security?
At the end of April 2021, the Colonial Pipeline was hacked. This hack took down the U.S.’s largest fuel pipeline and led to shortages all across the East Coast of America. It turns out that the hack resulted from one compromised password. The password was from an unused, but still enabled, account. The password had been found in a batch of leaked passwords on the dark web. It’s likely that the account owner had used the same password for multiple logins and one of the sites they logged into had been compromised.
How do I keep my password safe and secure?
Keeping your passwords safe is relatively easy, it just requires a little time to set up and discipline to maintain.