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COMPUTER HACKING

Computer hacking is basically modifying the hardware and the software to reach a goal outside the creator’s original purpose. People doing the hacking are called hackers. Hacking is common amongst the teenagers and young adults accompanied by older hackers. Many of them are truly technology buffers learning about computer’s way of working and consider the hacking as art form, enjoying programming and having expertise skills in a particular program.

For them, hacking is a real life application of the problem solving skills and a chance to show their abilities. A large number of hackers are self taught prodigies and corporate employing hackers as a part of their technical support staff. They use their skills to find the problems in the company’s security to repair them quickly which prevents identity theft and other computer crimes. Hacking can even lead to constructive technological developments as many skills developed from hacking are of great use to mainstream pursuits. Very less hackers have noble motives that are developing an interest in hacking out of curiosity e.g. they change a corporation’s financial data break security codes or conduct other destructive activities called crackers. This can put you behind the bars for 20 years.

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HOW TO KEEP A STRONG PASSWORD

You can substitute numbers in place of letters that look similar e.g. you can easily use “@” for “a” or “0″ for an “o” like m0d3ltf0rd becomes model ford or M0d3LtF0rd by using capitals wherever you want.

Choose something you were attached to when you were younger instead of choosing a person’s name like a place, a car, a favorite restaurant or an attractive vacation etc.

Get different username and password combinations for everything as the technique of hacking is to break into anything and everything you access to know your standard password which fails if you don’t use the same password everywhere. Rob form is a great way-out which stores all your passwords in an encrypted format and allow you to use a master password to access all of them.

Once a password is thought of, test it on Microsoft’s password strength tester to find out how secure is it.Another thing to be kept in mind is that you should never feel that your email account is not important as it has all the sensitive stuff but one can type forgot my password in your bank account and retrieve your password from the mailbox.

Also, many people store their passwords in a firewall or router and call it safe not knowing that they haven’t bothered to change the main password on that device. So anyone could ask them for their laptop for browsing and try almost all the passwords in the list till they have a nice control over your network.

You should invest in firewall and check your software programs for updates on a regular basis.There are 50 more ways that you have been keeping a weak password still not mentioned but as a user, you should take care of the things you use.

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