kssunbeam
07-28-2010, 02:15 AM
This is a very important announcement.
There has been a rise in hacked and stolen accounts on multiple torrent sites over the last week from IP addresses in Israel and Romania. Here are some important suggestions for keeping all of your accounts secure:
1. Use a different password for each of your accounts. If one of your passwords are compromised, it makes it harder for a hacker to access your other accounts.
2. Use a secure password. Dictionary words or names make terrible passwords and can be easy to guess. Passwords can contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols (@#$!%& etc..). Making use of more than one type of character (or all of them) greatly increases the strength of your password.
3. Make use of a program like KeePass http://keepass.info/ . KeyPass is a special, secure program which allows you to create different, secure passwords for each of your accounts, while storing these passwords in a secure, encrypted database on your own computer.
It may seem like a hassle to follow these steps, but doing so will ensure the security of all of your accounts.
There has been a rise in hacked and stolen accounts on multiple torrent sites over the last week from IP addresses in Israel and Romania. Here are some important suggestions for keeping all of your accounts secure:
1. Use a different password for each of your accounts. If one of your passwords are compromised, it makes it harder for a hacker to access your other accounts.
2. Use a secure password. Dictionary words or names make terrible passwords and can be easy to guess. Passwords can contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols (@#$!%& etc..). Making use of more than one type of character (or all of them) greatly increases the strength of your password.
3. Make use of a program like KeePass http://keepass.info/ . KeyPass is a special, secure program which allows you to create different, secure passwords for each of your accounts, while storing these passwords in a secure, encrypted database on your own computer.
It may seem like a hassle to follow these steps, but doing so will ensure the security of all of your accounts.