Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don’t Want You to Know

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installed. If you don’t use one, delete it.

Sharpen Your Password Game
People have to remember too many passwords on the Internet. Everyone knows this, but most of us get around the problem by using the same username and password over and over.

Hackers know this as well, and they’re happy to use it against you. Often they steal a person’s password and user name, perhaps via a phishing attack, and then try that combination on other popular services–Facebook, Gmail, PayPal, Yahoo–to see if it works there, too.

Luckily free and simple password management tools, such as KeePass Password Safe, are available to keep track of your passwords for you. They are a bit more work–you may tire of constantly jumping between a password manager and your browser every time you want to log into a Website, but remember that security always involves

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