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On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, Sally Ravindra wrote:
> thanks for your help and advice.
*** You're welcome.
> I have given a lot of thought as to how this might have happened as
> I really dont think there is any way I could be fooled into "giving"
> my password by someone pretending to be Chebucto.
*** Think about a cell phone, if you have one. It is open to
hacking as well. If it is through e-mail, the clues are in the return
address. None will be exactly the right address for CCN. In addition,
the recipient is often not just yourself for these kinds of phishing
e-mails.
> However, in the early days of needing passwords for everything under
> the sun, and early days of my use of the internet (and use of
> Chebucto web-based email instead of dial-up) perhaps more than 15
> years ago, I vaguely recall using the same password (already weak as
> you pointed out) for something else, thinking that was a logical
> thing to do..(so I could remember it!).
*** One should have different passwords and PINs for *everything*.
Never use:
* Family or friends' or pets' names
* Local place names
* Any words of personal things that you post on social media
* password
* 12345678
* 0000
* 1234
* 4321
* 9999
> Alas, I no longer recall what I used it for...but it could possibly
> have been the source of the problem--that password was "out there".
*** It's more likely that it was a common word that is easily
discerned by password hackers or their hacker softwares.
Try to use a password with mixed upper- and lower-case numbers,
interspersed with out-of-sequence numbers and other characters such as
% # { ...and so on.
Since no password is ever safe, always back up everything on line
(e-mail, personal webpage, social media) to a hard- or flashdrive that
is never on the Internet. Change passwords and codes often.
Never keep those passwords on your phone or computer.
> Anyway, my apologies, I hope it didnt mess up anything else other than me.
> Thanks,
*** You're welcome. (-:
Richard Bonner
Chebucto User Help
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