This is an urgent security message.
Security Breach by a hacker group
Recently a hacker group called Lulz Security released a list of 62,000 emails and passwords on their website. While they have not disclosed where they obtained the information from or which sites is this information for, nonetheless the security implications are massive! Most of us only ever use one or two passwords for all our services. If this is the case with you and your email address is on the list then you are potentially open to identity theft at this very instance!
We urge you to please check the list by clicking here . To quickly check if your email address exists in the list or not you can use your browser’s search functionality (usually activated by pressing Ctrl and F keys together).
Protecting Yourself
We advise all our readers and clients to keep changing their passwords regularly. Further we always advise to keep complex passwords. Creating complex passwords is not as tough as it may appear at first. To give you an example consider the ordinary phrase – kitchentowel
Following a series of simple transformations you can convert this phrase into a complex password
1. Follow the rules of English language and type the word as – KitchenTowel
2. Now replace “o” by number zero everywhere in the word. This now becomes – KitchenT0wel
3. Be excited about it. End the phrase with an ! as – KitchenT0wel!
4. For added security select your favorite letter in the phrase (your first initial, your loved one’s first initial etc.) and capitalize it. Say you decide on “i”. The phrase finally becomes – KItchenT0wel!
Thats it! Done!
We have taken a small phrase kitchentowel and turned it into a very formidable password containing a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letter, numbers and special characters. You can devise as many rules as you like and complicate the passwords further. Alternatively to begin with you might want to only follow steps 1 and 3 and keep your password relatively simple. The choice is yours!
If you would need any help from us on any topic discussed in this post please leave us a message here or email us at fixit@BritishPcRepairs.co.uk
