Finding Hotmail and yahoo Passwords

Your identity only protected by a simple word?

Why is it important?

Everybody should choose their hotmail password with care,
even if you do not have any important private conversations:
Anybody who gains access to your email account has the
power to pretend to be you and do anything he wants …
in your name। And finding hotmail passwords can be easy.

How to protect it?

So do not use just a few characters or even a simple word
as your password! A good recommendation is to use at
least 10 characters, consisting of several upper (A-Z) and
lower (a-z) case letters, combined with numbers (0-9).

What to avoid?

Including special characters (like: ,.;-!) in your passwords
would significantly improve security, but these types of
characters are not allowed in all kinds of passwords, so
you may have to avoid them.

Try to avoid words that can be found in dictionaries, and
do not use a name or a date of birth. These kind of
passwords are bad, because they are quite easy to hack
by guessing, common sense or with help of a very simple
computer software. Do not share your passwords with
anybody.

How to remember?

Make sure to use a “lost password question” or similar
mechanism to be able to regain control in case you lose
your password.Change your password from time to time,
maybe once a year.

It’s probably a good idea to write down your passwords.
You can use a piece of paper or almost any kind of file,
for example a simple text file, an Excel- or OpenOffice-
spreadsheet, or even an image file. Keep it at a safe place.
You may even want to disguise the passwords in your
notes in a simple way.

How to disguise?

Easy for yourself but efficient against spying eyes.
For example by adding a fixed number of random
characters to your passwords at a certain position,
preferably the beginning or the end . You may choose
to add 2 random characters to the beginning of the
passwords in your notes. So if your hotmail email
password is “Jmx696mxR” and your yahoo email
password is “GsKeBy3355″ for example write on
your sheet:

Site:	User:	Password:
Hotmail	YourHotmailEmailAddress	XYJmx696mxR
Yahoo	YourYahooEmailAddress	UwGsKeBy3355

Use a fixed number of different (random) characters at a
fixed position to attach to every password. Create a
backup copy of your password sheet, keep one version
up-to-date and refresh your backup from time to time.
Please remember to keep both versions at a secure place.

What’s the benefit?

These are important steps to keep your email address secure
and thus to protect your identity. If you follow the guidelines
mentioned above you will have good protection from people
who want to gain access to your email account, whether it’s
somebody you know or just some random person trying to
hack into random accounts to use them for whatever.

Completely secure … or not?