FabSwingers.com forum: Protection against cyber attacks

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Posted in the TalkTalk thread, but repeated here.

With increasing amount of online hacking and fraud you need to make sure you don't use the same login details for different sites (certainly for the ones with your bank or card details)

So, for those of you who don't know where to start, it's easier than you think:

1 - get a secure password with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and at least one symbol.

Make it a word that means something to you, but just mix it up a bit, for example, change fabswingers to F&bSw1ng3rs.

This is your password "root".

2 - for every site add 2-3 letters to the start, so for your Halifax login your password would be halF&bSw1ng3rs

Your tesco password would be tesF&bSw1ng3rs

3 - if you have difficulty remembering passwords, save a document on your phone with the prefixes (don't name the doc "passwords"!) and don't save your password root.

4 - do this before one of your accounts is hacked. In fact get off here and do it now for any site that has your banking or card details.

Note: is this the best or most secure way? No, but it's a good start and will help protect you against most automated large-scale attacks against people who use the same credentials everywhere.

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

I used to have the same password for my email and my paypal.

Email got hacked. Saw i had a paypal

Account. Tried their luck and boom.. £200 gone from my bank account.

Fortunately I have some very lovely fab friends on here and they helped me out while I was waiting for it to be sorted! Took a fortnight tho!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Posted in the TalkTalk thread, but repeated here.

With increasing amount of online hacking and fraud you need to make sure you don't use the same login details for different sites (certainly for the ones with your bank or card details)

So, for those of you who don't know where to start, it's easier than you think:

1 - get a secure password with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and at least one symbol.

Make it a word that means something to you, but just mix it up a bit, for example, change fabswingers to F&bSw1ng3rs.

This is your password "root".

2 - for every site add 2-3 letters to the start, so for your Halifax login your password would be halF&bSw1ng3rs

Your tesco password would be tesF&bSw1ng3rs

3 - if you have difficulty remembering passwords, save a document on your phone with the prefixes (don't name the doc "passwords"!) and don't save your password root.

4 - do this before one of your accounts is hacked. In fact get off here and do it now for any site that has your banking or card details.

Note: is this the best or most secure way? No, but it's a good start and will help protect you against most automated large-scale attacks against people who use the same credentials everywhere."

Good advice -

But I don;t bank or pay bills or really shop online, so.

It's easier that way. For me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have separate passwords for everything all stored in my head. When I change them I write them down a lot to keep the image in my head. I don't store any of them anywhere.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I struggle with the issue of where to store them.

I have separate passwords for everything and I update the ones I use most every 6 months. When I die it's going to be really difficult for my family to close down everything for which I have a password.

I do think TalkTalk have been good about getting people to realise that it could affect their credit rating too and paying for credit rating monitoring for those hacked.

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

i was thinking of using a preload credit card in future, i suspect some sites dont accept if they use CPA, but for buying they cant take what you have not got

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