Your first line of defense
Your first line of defense against cybercriminals is your passwords.
So why passwords…
Because if they get your passwords...then they can get into your accounts and to everything they want to...
If someone gets your Facebook password then he can log in to your Facebook account and read your important messages with your friends and family…
And he can know a lot of secrets about your life…
He can know everything important about you because you told your friends about them…
And maybe he can use this information against you…
What if a hacker gets the passwords that you use at work then he can log in to your work accounts like your professional email...LinkedIn...zoom...zapier.
He can read a lot of information about the company that you work for and this informations could put the company at a big risk and maybe they will hack their most important assents…
As you can see when a hacker gets you passwords he can do a lot of bad things to you...to your company...to your family…
So you need to take care of your passwords because if someone gets them you will be in a bad position…
Now we are going to talk about a few tips that you will need to keep in your mind about passwords…
First, you need to make your password strong as much as possible…
But how you can do it?
When you set a new password or change your existing passwords make sure to make your password very long...make sure your password is more than 12 characters long...
Also, make sure that you use in your passwords numbers...upper case characters...lower case characters...special characters…
So a strong password is a mix of upper and lower case characters with special characters and contains numbers and it must be longer than 12 characters…
Never use the same password twice.
Some people use the same password in more than one site or application…
It’s a bad thing to do because if a hacker is targeting you then if he gets your password Then he will try to use the same password on a different site…
What if he gets your Facebook password...and you are using the same password for your bank account…
What you happen if he has your bank account?
Just imagine it’s a hard thing to imagine…
So never use the same password on two different sites…
Never give your passwords to someone else:
This is because if you give your password to someone else who knows what could happen if he did not take care of your password…
Maybe someone else will find it and hack you…
Maybe he will forget your account password in a place at the park and a hacker finds it…
So when it comes to your password never give them to someone else never trust anyone about your passwords…
So your password is very important never give them to someone else...never reuse the same password twice...make sure your passwords are longer than 12 characters...
When you create a new password or change your existing password use them numbers...special character...upper and lower case characters.