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Category: personal computer security
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Computer Viruses Monitored via Dynamic Worldmap
You'll be able to view Previous Hour, Previous Day, Previous Month, This Year, and Previous Year. Color Coding has 6 Ranges (No Data, Quiet, Low, Medium, High, and Epidemic)
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Create A Password
Creating a Password is easy. Standard practice to create a password that is fairly difficult to crack consists of using at least 8 character with upper and lowercase letters, a number and a special character. So your password should look like this: M1k3@H0m3
This password says “Mike at Home”. It is a good idea to make the password something that is easy to remember. 53Xon+Be@ch
Here is another one that is hard to crack and easy to remember. It says “Sex on the Beach” (“the” is replaced with “+”)
@o15uX@55
If you are on AOL this one might be easy to remember as well.
+H1SismyBby
If you have to log on to a baby site, a password similar to this might help. It says “this is my baby”.
This is the general idea for generating good passwords. But if you have like 30-40 passwords and don't want them to all be the same here is another method that could help you. READ more about how to create a password and MANUAL ENCRYPTION here.
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She Cracked my Hotmail Password: a sad shoulder surfing story
Ever type in your password at work and notice that there is someone standing behind you watching your fingers very closely as if trying to decipher you password? This is known as “Shoulder Surfing.”
If you don't think it is possible to eyeball someone's keystrokes and know their password, think again.
In the '90s, I didn't know much about computers or computer security. I was a military cop well versed in physical security and air base ground defense and only used computers for screwing around. My passwords were as easy as possible so I could remember them.
I didn't fully appreciate the importance of having a strong password until my wife hacked my Hotmail account. No big deal right… WRONG. Like I said I was screwing around. I was big into flirting in chat rooms and on email. I was just having fun with what I thought were beautiful young ladies, but who (realistically) were probably neither beautiful or young or (shedding a tear) ladies.
I'd been spending so much time online with chatrooms and EverQuest (a.k.a EverCrack) that my wife started to get very jealous of the computer and suspected I was up to something. So she shoulder surfed me one night, got my password, and got into my account while I was at work.
To make a long story even longer, my wife went crazy. She called my job screaming, I had to respond to my own house, my weapon was taken away (this is like being neutered for a cop), and the beautiful young lady that I was chatting with…. It was a man (yeah, it was like a cyber Crying Game). Needless to say, I don't do much of ANY chatting these days. But I digress.
Tips to guard your hotmail account cracks, via shoulder surfers.