so password security i mean we all know that password abcd or 69 all day are
really terrible passwords we know that you shouldn't reuse passwords across
multiple sites we know that you shouldn't write down your password yet
many people do these things every day today we'll discuss the ramifications of
bad password habits and give you some best practices to incorporate into your
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so i don't want to fear monger but i do want to open with a few realistic
scenarios that could occur if your passwords were broken into or leaked or
whatever even ignoring the obviously horrible stuff like what if someone had
access to your online banking account strap in it's about to get a little
freaky first off facebook or something like facebook maybe it doesn't seem like
that big of a deal sure i mean maybe they'll see that you're the admin of the
combined fan groups of both narwhals and five gallon buckets but nothing can
really go wrong here right wrong not only can they glean more
information very easily like your phone number but they can also change your
privacy settings opening up your account to the world doesn't sound that bad okay
let's take it up a notch the intruder could glean information from your
friends either by just having closer access to their pages or by using social
engineering practices like simply asking them things so effectively your own
failures can compromise the privacy of your friends and family not cool and
that's ignoring that an especially malicious attacker could ruin
friendships or people's perception of you by posting things on your wall that
are highly inappropriate or asking things of people that wouldn't be
appropriate so now let's do scenario number two losing your email this is
actually one of the worst things that can happen not because someone might
read the love letter you wrote in high school but because your email is usually
used as a password and even username recovery mechanism for your other
accounts poor email security is basically like handing an intruder the
master key to your online identity which brings into play another aspect identity
theft by having access to a few of your accounts especially your email it can
actually be pretty damn easy to steal someone else's identity once that
happens registering new credit cards getting healthcare on their dime or your
dime or even registering their bridge or highway tolls under your name or their
name is relatively all easily possible so we
all agree that password security is important and yes some things are
somewhat out of your hands like website security and whatnot but what can you do
to help protect your own accounts well you can protect against hacking attempts
with some fairly simple things never store them in plain text on your
computers never write them down never use your real name username birthday
phone number or any other easily identifiable information in your
password never use an easy keyboard combination like abcd qwerty or qazed
and there are some other good tips too be careful with the answers to security
questions if you don't feel like any of them are strong enough use an unrelated
answer that you know you can remember and if you have to send your password to
someone for some probably terrible reason in plain text online try
splitting it up across a few different mediums never reuse a password but
especially for your email many people are guilty of using passwords including
myself in the past but please at the very least use the unique and strong
password for your email and finally use
two-factor authentication wherever possible you can learn more about it
here but basically with two-factor authentication you can have security
code sent to your mobile device or email in order to double check that it's
actually you trying to log in this can really help against things like key
loggers skimming your passwords as these codes are one-time use i would highly
recommend two-factor authentication even if you ignore all of my other
suggestions that i've made please listen to this one
moving on now to create a good password is actually rather simple and if you'd
like to see a great infographic on it look up xkcd password strength in that
infographic it has stated that and i quote through 20 years of effort we've
successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to
remember but easy for computers to guess end quote
i completely and wholeheartedly agree with this stop using short but insanely
complicated passwords and start using long and more simple ones that you can
actually remember this will help you to not write them down or store them
somewhere and makes them actually a lot harder to break a trick i use is
describing something in my environment for instance this is a long skinny white
tube but that happens to have tape on it so i could make my password long skinny
white tube tape and it would actually be a pretty secure as long as i don't break
any of the other rules as well but this really isn't enough there's still a huge
amount of unique and long passwords to remember so you might be inclined to
tell your browser to remember your password for a certain website don't do
that chrome's passwords are encrypted based on your Windows login password the
security of which is iffy at best
considering there's a few ways to decipher them quite easily and firefox's
passwords are normally very easily accessible unless you set your own
master password which for whatever reason it doesn't prompt you to do at
this time so how do you remember them all well i would recommend using a
third-party password manager for cloud-based options you have lastpass
dashlane and one password amongst others and for local storage options you have
keepass roboform and password safe again
amongst others there are positives and negatives to each of these solutions but
that may be for another video at another time a different route than these would
be if you would like to use truekey from Intel a new password security system
based around using your fingerprint or your facial recognition
as encryption utilities again there's positives and negatives to that as well
and the last but not least option is a physical security key like yubikey from
yubico this is a token that's trusted by everyone from google to facebook to the
freaking united states department of defense and that can provide an
additional factor of authentication against anything from your Windows login
to your email to your password manager itself so you'll never really have to
worry about some jackass intruders netflix suggestions and ratings invading
your chill time next time you want to log in
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