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Things to worry about - - Have you used a password on more than one site? (if it is guessed on one, perhaps a forum susceptible to rapid brute force, it may be
by shubb 13y ago
Things to worry about -
- Have you used a password on more than one site? (if it is guessed on one, perhaps a forum susceptible to rapid brute force, it may be used against every other site)
- Do any services you use allow emergency authentication using widely available information like your first school or date of birth (could someone who is friends with you on facebook answer any security questions). The only way to know this is to try the emergency recovery for each service you use.
- Could authentication for one service lead to others? Does your facebook auth your spotify account? Could someone with access to your spotify account find out your credit card number, or maliciously buy things?
- Are you using strong passwords? In general, not using common passwords if fine if you are not under specific attack, but a determined attacker may use a dictionary attack against some service to discover a password you like using. Random strings of characters and onepassword is a good plan.
- If someone is targeting you, they may use phishing attacks, such as compromising a friends email, and sending you a trojan.
In general, the less information about you available on the internet, the harder you are to impersonate. This is a bit of a problem, as linkedin and facebook are sort of necessary. Consider setting your security up high, pruning excess friends, and being careful about who you add. Or closing the accounts. If they know your birthday and when you graduated highschool, they know your date of birth.