Article: Securing Your Accounts With Well-Crafted Passwords

Securing Your Accounts With Well-Crafted Passwords

In the past I?ve never really paid much attention to security issues when it comes to user names and passwords. Frankly I figured it was all a lot of overblown hype. This led to an unfortunate incident that involved my website being attacked, apparently by a skillful youth with a propensity for mischief.



The main security flaw with my website was probably the simple fact that the username and password were exactly the same. Granted I did realize that this wasn?t highly intelligent but I didn?t have the power to change it myself, and I didn?t think it really mattered enough to bother about it. Having an identical username and password is a massive ?no-no? in computer security. Your username and password should not even be related along the same line of thought. A username of ...
 

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