February 1st is National Change your Password Day

  • 30 January 2014
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National Change your Password Day is coming up this Saturday.  If you haven't changed your passwords in a while, now is the time to do so (just like you check the batteries in your smoke detector every year 🙂  I'm as guilty as the next person of not managing my passwords well, so I'll be taking this opportunity to finally install a password manager.  Here's a couple good resources for password management:
 
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This is especially relevant in light of the Yahoo news.  If you use Yahoo, make sure you change your password:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240213571/Hackers-access-Yahoo-Mail-with-stolen-passwords
Since I have 4 mail accounts with my ISP and they use Yahoo mail I changed all of my passwords online then had to go into my email client Outlook 2013 and changed in there as well! Thanks Nic!
 
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This is especially relevant in light of the Yahoo news.  If you use Yahoo, make sure you change your password:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240213571/Hackers-access-Yahoo-Mail-with-stolen-passwords

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