Beyond the Password: Be Wary of Your Username Too
Topping the syllabus for "How to Protect Your Privacy Online 101" is passwords, passwords, passwords. Make them unique, make them strong, hard-to-guess, never reuse one, the list for how to protect yourself from scams goes on and on. But while you're spending the day creating a password beyond "12345," what other, even more dangerous security risk are you letting slide by?
Topping the syllabus for “How to Protect Your Privacy Online 101” is passwords, passwords, passwords. Make them unique, make them strong, hard-to-guess, never reuse one, the list for how to protect yourself from scams goes on and on. But while you’re spending the day creating a password beyond “12345,” what other, even more dangerous security risk are you letting slide by?
According to new research, that risk is, in fact, the one you use everyday, the one that defines your online identity: your username.
And it’s a particular risk for social media users, who want to be pervasive online and want their friends and family to be able to find them easily, from Twitter to Facebook to Foursquare.
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