Taking Security Measures-Help I Was Hacked!

Midori:

Thanks for the good common sense advice on passwords and security.  My husband's company was hacked the other day and they pay thousands to have great security.  It happens  to the best of them.  I have noticed more things happening on Facebook lately. 

Some really good information shared; i did not know the dangers of the spambots. Thanks, Midori (pretty name too).

Thanks for the help on this today.  You can't be too careful!

Patricia/Seacoast NH

very good info and those email even though they are jokes I hate it when I see my name on there with a hundred other people

Good stuff.  I am getting ready to go on a password change...  I was planning it before your post... but you are reminding me and making my to do list longer...

Midori, that is so unfortunate and it is a good argument for changing our passwords often too. I love your new profile photo BTW.

That is so scary.  Those hackers seem to be able to do anything!

Midori, this is SO helpful, THANK YOU!

Regardless of how hard one tries there is always some hacker, spammer, phisher out there who is trying to steal all our passcodes.

Hi Midori~ I had to look twice as I didn't recognize you at first!  Nice picture!  Thanks for the tips and I am going to change my passwords now....

Midori, That is great advice.  I never thought about cleaning my cache daily and I need to change my passwords more often.  Thanks!

Thanks for the tips and the links

These are important aspects to protecting your information and helping yourself mitigate the problem is there is one.

I recently changed all my passwords just in case. My laptop had to be sent out for repairs and my log in was same as all my email passwords, So I changed it just in case. Who knows who had access to my computer. I had the same PS for one email account for like 12 yrs never wanted to change it because it was short and simple it was 5 digits new ones had to be 8 min, well I finally changed it to like 20 digits. 

Being in the real estate business we make ourselves very public and vulnerable to spam. Foreign business men with too much money that want to send us money for a small fee, haha. The best we can do is to be careful with our emails.

I recently came across a marketing email for Daylight Savings that I sent out.  It suggests that you change your passwords everytime Daylight Savings begins or ends.  I alway use "non-words" (which is probably not a real word, lol) uppercase and lower case and add numbers in the middle.  I work my way down the numbers so I can keep up.  Its very scary, especially as Realtors who have their info EVERYWHERE.  Thanks for sharing!

Helpful post Midori.  Thanks, you know it's after something happens that we usually remember all the things we shoud have done.  Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks for the tip. Have had this happen in the past and it takes forever to get everything straight

Have a great day

Tony

Makes you wonder how they get all their information?

Midori, thanks for the information.  Time to change my passwords on everything.