Two weeks ago, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin discovered that a hacker had gained access to her personal e-mail account and posted some of its contents — both letters and photos — on a Web site viewable by the public. The incident underscores the importance for anyone with secure online profiles to create strong passwords, regardless of whether they’re used as one’s primary access key to a site or the “answer” to one’s password reset question. With all the information we regularly communicate using online profiles, an interested snooper with enough access could easily peice together enough to leave anyone — famous or otherwise — with a costly case of identity theft.
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Building a Better Password
Posted by: Tara Kelly September 29, 2008 06:00 AMTwo weeks ago, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin discovered that a hacker had gained access to her personal e-mail account and posted some of its contents — both letters and photos — on a Web site viewable by the public. The incident underscores the importance for anyone with secure online profiles to create strong passwords, regardless of whether they’re used as one’s primary access key to a site or the “answer” to one’s password reset question. With all the information we regularly communicate using online profiles, an interested snooper with enough access could easily peice together enough to leave anyone — famous or otherwise — with a costly case of identity theft.