Passwords Hacked

Alistair Cameron has a neat little tip on how to create a unique password for all the social media groups and other sites to which you belong. Lots of people like to use the same password for every site, which means if a hacker gets in to one of your accounts, they will be able to get into others. So, Cameron suggests that if you really must use the same password for all accounts that you tack on an identifier to the end of the password so that a machine could not figure out what you’d done.

So, if your password is always widdle1 then make it widdle1-wordpress for your Wordpress account, widdle1-facebook for your Facebook account, widdle1-gmail for your GMail account, widdle1-twitter…you get the picture. But, best practice is to use a unique password for each site in the first place.