Tuesday, January 11, 2011

How to Protect yourself from password Hacking?



 How to Protect yourself from password Hacking?
Prevention is always better than cure. If you would like to take the risk, a common practice (for some of us) is to use another PC when we need to do something risky. With constant PC upgrades, many of us could easily keep an older PC (at least one) just for this purpose. Use complex passwords and do not write anywhere. And use passwords on internet where SSL is enabled.


Use Password manager like: KeePass Password safe.

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.

 Fig: Keypass password safe

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES
and Twofish).

After creating password database, just drag and drop to use passwords. This software is portable run from pen drive also.

Download URL: http://keepass.info/


Enjoy.......

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