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THanks, you have been hugely helpful, and I will remember your suggestions!
-Sally Ravindra
Quoting Richard Bonner <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca>:
>
> 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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