![]() ![]() Maybe it's a site you don't even care about. ![]() You should definitely have randomly generated ones for each site. It may seem like a good idea but in fact it's not. Now they still might be randomly generated but they figure well I've memorized this randomly generated strong password let me stick with it and use it for all these different sites. You can see that a whole bunch of passwords are the same. Even people who know a lot about security and feel like they know what they're doing will do something more like this. Or maybe from just using Safari's ability to create random passwords. So each one is randomly generated say from a password management program like OnePassword or LastPass. It should be not only different but randomly generated. ![]() Your password though should be completely different for each one. Now chances are your ID is the same for every single one. Maybe there's Yahoo, there's Goggle, there's iCloud of course. Say you've got all these different websites that you belong to. Let me show you how it works and how you can protect yourself against it. How is it that you need to change your password? Well, it turns out it's relatively easy for people to get hold of your password without ever breaking into the site itself. If nobody has broken into their site, nobody's hacked into them or your account there. So if that's true then why do you need to change your password. But then you read further into the alert the notice that it's coming out from whatever website has sent it and you find out that they claim that they haven't been hacked. You get an Alert that you need to change your password. Video Transcript: Here's something that you may have seen in the last couple of years and it's going to keep going on. ![]()
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