Security Tip: Use different passwords in different places

Hotmail was compromised this week as well as twitter.   Through phishing schemes and other clever techniques, hackers are looking to capture your information.  Be sure to use a DIFFERENT password for all your different web services to protect yourself against a hacker.  Even the best of us can be caught by some of these schemes.

Come up with a good password algorithm that works for you and diversify those passwords!  Change them on a regular basis, and you’ll be safer out on the web.

Here is a recent example of Twitter being compromised along with some other sites

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