Monday, July 23, 2007

Tips to Easily Choose Good Secure PINs and Passwords

This is a great article I read today that may help some of you with choosing good secure passwords that are (really!) easy to remember.

Back in June, a client of mine had the "dictionary" form of attack on his email password. The sp@mmer sent out 100,000 emails using the client's email address and mail server and got his site shut down by the hosting company until we could get it straightened out.

That prompted a newsletter from me with some suggestions for password security, and this article is another tool in the arsenal to keep the lazy scammers from taking advantage of us.

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