On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 16:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 9/2/19 3:53 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Today, I got a message, staring: > > Hey, I know your password is ........ > > > > and asking for money. > > > > The password is one of the password that I use. It is not one giving access > > to important accounts, but I am a bit wondering about other account. > > I am careful with my accounts and passwords. > > How can I prevent sort of password steal? > > "You" cannot prevent your password being stolen from sites which store > passwords in an insecure manner. Unfortunately you can't predict which sites > use poor procedures. > > The best thing you can do is change your passwords often for sites of valure > and don't reuse passwords. Also, use different passwords for "important" > sites than for "unimportant" sites. The "unimportant" sites would include > those which don't store your CC# or other personal data.
The best way to do that is with a password manager. > Whenever possible, and practical, use 2 factor authentication. +1, when available, which is not always. For example Amazon (at least in Europe) doesn't offer this. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
