Has someone been going through your diary?

Have you ever caught your sister or brothers looking through your diary? Have you ever caught a friend going through your belongings at home? Have you caught an employee by your desk going through your drawer? Have you caught a friend going through your locker at school?

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If you answered “no” to these questions, congratulations! That shows you put security at the top of your priorities. If you answered “yes” how did you feel? This goes to show how laid-back you are with security; probably your drawer or locker key was kept carelessly or your letter was just dropped in your unzipped bag.

The way you felt when you found out your privacy was invaded, that’s how you should feel when your banks online account, yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, twitter, MySpace etc. are hacked.

When you use weak passwords for all your online accounts you are invariably saying to everyone, “Come take a look at my account”. Indulging in this act not only put your information on a platter of gold and delivered it into the hands of the hacker; you also put the information of everyone who has ever exchanged very important private information with you in it.

Another act that resembles the one described above is using the same passwords for all your online accounts be it online banking and others like yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook etc. Indulging in this act can be likened to someone who deliberately climbs on a cliff without a safety harness and expects to survive the fall.

If your information means something to you, guard it with all malice. Desist from using weak passwords and same passwords for your online/internet account, because for every account hacked there are countless amount of information associated with your account that will be exposed instantly.

Remember, next week’s blog will be the final of the security updates. Till I see you again next week, be good!