On the Internet, only one thing draws the line between your private space and property and the rest of the virtual world–your password.  Just one phrase protects you from hacking and cracking, and their potentially life-ruining consequences.  But with practically every new site you visit demanding you create an account, it’s no wonder people get lax with their passwords.  Learn to manage these well, and protect important accounts such as your Facebook, email and bank account.

Password Protection Tips

1. Devise a strong, long and mixed password. Make it at least eight characters, with a mixture of big caps and lower case letters.  Use a combination of numbers, special characters and the alphabet.  But don’t make it so complicated that you are unlikely to remember it.
2. Invent a pass phrase that rings a bell in your head.  The best passwords are easy for the owner to memorize, yet impossible for others to guess at.
3. Use your password everyday.  For example, with a Facebook login password, check your Facebook daily with it.  Like many things in life, your brain puts your passwords in the back room when you don’t use them.
4. Never. ever disclose your password to another person.  Do not put down passwords in an email or text message.  Don’t believe an official-looking email asking you for your password. And if the official-looking message has a link and asks you to log in to it, don’t do it.  Go to your account website by typing its domain in your browser (say, www.facebook.com to log in to Facebook), but never use an email link.
5. Do not save your password in your Web browser.  It is very easy for anyone with a little knowledge of computers to see your passwords list!  Modify your browser settings so that it doesn’t store passwords.  Or choose the sites you want it to save passwords for.
6. Change passwords are regular intervals, say every couple of months or whenever you feel your account may be at risk.

For convenience, you might want to try a password manager.  With a password managing program, you would need only one chief password or key to access all the passwords you add to it. But then you have to make sure you never forget that one password. You can find free utilities that do this on the Web.

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