When you think of security, you may be thinking mostly of your home security and the ways you invest in the safety of your family. However identity theft continues to be a growing threat to your security. It may not pose you any physical danger, but you could potentially lose money and have your credit destroyed by not take proper precautions online.
The most important thing you can do to keep yourself safe online is to change your online passwords, especially if you are using any of the most common passwords for 2015. The list of terrible passwords includes “password” “letmein” “superman” “baseball” 
and other easy to guess words or series of numbers like “12345678” these common passwords are easy for hackers to guess, so you should come up with something more complicated.
A great tip for creating complicated online passwords that are easy to remember is to use a phrase and have your password be the first letter of each word in your phrase. Since many sites require a capital letter, you should make a habit of making the first letter Capitalized, since it is the beginning of your sentence. Add a punctuation mark at then end, since it will fulfill the requirement of needing a symbol in you password. An example might be, “I hate trying to remember my online passwords!” In this case your password would be “Ihttrmp!” Your phrase can be anything you are likely to remember, and of course if you can incorporate numbers or symbols into your password, that is even better. So a phrase like “You are the only one for me!” could be a password “Yato14m!” (You use the number 1 for “one” and the number 4 in place of the word “for.”)
Another common mistake people make is that they use the same password for everything. For the safest internet experience you should always create unique online passwords. You can store these unique passwords in an app that stores passwords for you, in a notebook at home or a secured document online.
Remember to change your passwords often, make them complicated and don’t use them for more than one or two sites. For all your at home security needs please contact us, we care about keeping you safe.
