Friday, October 02, 2015

Cybersecurity

October is national cybersecurity awareness month.  Accordingly, here is a tip for securing your electronic data.

Use strong passwords.  Passwords are naturally subject to many different attacks.  Shared password conventions can increase the likelihood of passwords being guessed.  Shorter passwords of dictionary words with few or predictable numbers (e.g., the year) and not using all types of complexity are easily cracked with freely available tools and inexpensive graphic cards.

More in next blog posting...................