Why Email Passwords Need to Be Very Strong and Different then Others You Use

Email Passwords

Why do your email passwords need to be very strong and different than the others you use?

Hacking is big business. Email is how a hacker gets to your banking and credit card information. Think about this. Every time you sign up for a banking login or you need to change your password, the entity you are applying for send you an email. If a person had access to your email, they could tell where you bank, who send you offers, and what bills you pay online. Requesting a simple password change can put a hacker into your financial life is less time than it takes to get a cup of coffee.

Here is a piece of information, perhaps you didn’t know. People don’t hack, machines do. They are loaded with code and programs to do what it would take a person hours to do. Searching your computer for somename@somewebaddress.ext is swiftly done by a computer. A hacker could get into your system and figure out your access codes without you noticing anything was wrong.

The faster your computer, the less noticeable the intrusion. If you have a high-speed computer and on one day it moves just slightly slower, by the time you think “there might be something going on”, your computer is back to normal speed. AND you don’t think it was anything.

Email passwords should always be the hardest to figure out. But they do not need to be hard to remember. Phrases are hard to hack via machine. Pick a phrase and fashion a password from it.

The phrase I ski for fun could be turned into a password you can remember. Eyeski4fUn. Most companies want at least 8 characters. Some want one of them to be Uppercase, one lowercase, a number and sometimes a symbol. Putting the uppercase letter in a place other than the front makes hacking it harder. You can place the symbol you like in the middle or just before the end.

Make it harder to hack and your email won’t be the reason you are sending apologies to your friends on Facebook, or losing your good credit.