21 March

Good passwords

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strong-passwordsNearly everyone uses passwords. It is important to get the secure options you need with good passwords. Most people have favorite passwords they like to use, or think it would be easy for them to remember. It is a great thing to be able to do if you have these options available, but what constitutes good passwords is something that may vary with the individual.
Ideally you should have a combination of letters and numbers capital letters, small letters, numbers etc. Yes, it could be difficult to find a combination of numbers and letters that you will remember, but writing these down and remembering them are the things that you will need to do. It may help to use quality options you can find online to store passwords. This is often a good thing to do. This is a way you can keep passwords safe, and you may also get reminders to renew the passwords.
The idea with picking a good password is to pick passwords that are easy for you to remember and difficult for other people to guess. For instance, if you were born in 1966, and you mother had to hurry into labor your password could be hUrry66 or Hur5ry. for instance. Some people use pets names with numbers associated with them. These are often good passwords to use. It is up to you to find the combination of letters and numbers that are easy for you to remember but yet difficult for others to guess. Birthdays might be something that could be guessed…but anniversaries with initials may be something that is significant to you and not anyone else.
With proper planning individuals can usually find passwords that will work out for them and be easy to put into place a something that will help them avoid hackers. It is good to keep a list of passwords either online or in a very safe and secure place that others will not look to find. These are the ways you may be able to keep your information safe and out of he hands of those who might seek to steal your password, and try to hack into your bank account, credit card account or other feature.

wordpress-hack-300x198While using their WordPress sites, all the sudden the user sees something pop up. A notice to download some plugin in order to continue using their WordPress site. No problem. Just one simple plugin, right? Wrong. That simple plugin just got their site hacked as soon as it was downloaded. It could even be in a form of an ad on their site. If the hackers get a hold of an important file called the “wp-config file”, the person using their WordPress site is basically going to be in a world of nightmare. People would think that after years and years of these sites being hacked, security would try to make some better improvements. However, the hackers are still getting through.
With today’s sites, the key to keeping sites from being attacked is being cautionate. This is still applied to WordPress as well. Keep updating the password every now and then. The password should be something that can be remembered but also something difficult for someone to figure out. Make sure the right plugin or firewall is installed. The hackers scan what sites are vulnerable and find out which of them are the easiest to be attacked. Those failed login attempts that people get emailed about that they know they didn’t do, that is proof when someone is trying to hack the site. WordPress seems to be on the top of the list for hackers.
For a business WordPress site, it could be extra stressful cleaning out their malicious site, especially the impact it makes on their business. If this is the case, then the main focus would be the security. The slip up catastrophe could lead business reputation into a downfall and at the hands of the hackers, the site could be turned into something that nobody wants to see when they visit a business site- most commonly redirected as a porn site. A professional is needed to be hired for a top-notch secure site.
Even if people think that their WordPress site is very protected and top-notch secured, they can never tell if they will be the next victim. According to US National Vulnerable Database, the top security vulnerability has been with plugins avaliable in the directory as well as from outsite sources. If one WordPress site is hacked, it could lead to other sites being infected, causing that dramatic spike of hacked WordPress sites.