Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Danger of Using the Same Password For All Websites

With most of the work is moving towards the Internet, which is very common for one to multiple accounts on the Internet. I had online accounts to your bank, credit card, e - Bay, PayPal, Google Images Mail, Hotmail, blogs, etc. Each time you before opening a new account on the Internet, do you stop and reflect on whether you should use the same password?
while use the same password save you the inconvenience of having to remember multiple passwords for different sites, and it makes it easier for hackers to defeat your accounts. Let& 39;s say you use the same password for your Bank of America Online Savings Account, and credit card Citibank, and Hotmail account. If you use the name and password for Hotmail stolen, the alien will try to use the same username and password to the various sites (including Bank of America, Citibank (to see if there could be storming accounts. When one of your accounts is breached, and you risk all your accounts to be breached.
you can avoid these various security risks using the username and password each time you open a new account on the Internet. But how are you going to track all the different user names and passwords for these accounts?
some browsers (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox) save user names and passwords that you should not have to retype them in each time you get back to the same site. Nevertheless, the data can easily be deleted by other users if you engaged your computer with others. if I was in a hard drive crash, you will lose all data saved to the browser you.
some sites provide " Remember Me & quot; checkbox, so you can avoid the login page next time you visit the site itself. these sites depend on the browser " Cookies & quot; for this work. cookie is a text file generated by the browser hidden behind the scenes. could contain a user name, password and any other personal information that the site needed to track navigation behavior.
one denial of cookies is that it ends After a certain period. expiration date is set by the author. expiration date can range from 1 minute for a few years. when finished, the cake will be automatically deleted by the browser on behind the scenes and you will be asked to enter your user name and password again. cookies can be removed also by others if you participate computer.
relying your browser to track your username and password is not safe bet. You need a more reliable tool for tracking you login. reliable tool that called Password Manager. A good example is the password Director roboform. Roboform symbolizes all your connection and keep them away from potential intruders. you can easily retrieve your name and password with the click of a mouse. Roboform automatically fills in the username and password fields on the site and register for the free beta you.
download of roboform discovered how easy to organize and automate your logins.
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