I've had yahoo for many years. Would love to leave but so many use my yahoo email name. Would be a pain, like changing a phone #. I've been using PC Matic as security, don't know if its any good but...
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I've had yahoo for many years. Would love to leave but so many use my yahoo email name. Would be a pain, like changing a phone #. I've been using PC Matic as security, don't know if its any good but...
I have a "throw away" yahoo email address. If I leave the Yahoo home page open, or scroll through, there will be well over 100 blocked ads. I have had a virus come in through one of these ads...
But it's not that easy. How about malicious code buried in advertisements shown on news sites? Even with Adblock Plus I still get some redirects squeak through.
I would argue that those aren't ...
...BUT I do have to keep records that include a lot of personal info for clients and investors including ss#s, address, financial info, bank info, wire transfer info, copies of checks, spouse info...
This is probably one of the leading excuses for bad security. Aside from Harold's point about this attitude putting others at risk, there are the multitude of reasons hackers want to break through....
My password process is pretty convoluted on purpose. Besides my personal accounts, there's dozens client accounts, and multiple business accounts.
But I can share a couple of tips that I suggest...
It is incredibly hard to hack a decent password. Doing it cold without any social engineering or other kinds of information reconnaissance literally amounts to running huge lists of words and hoping...
I agree it's madness, but necessary. I agree with VG that a password manager is a good idea, although anything with a single point of failure bothers me.
I have been using LastPass recently, but I...