For the sake of Security, Change Password two times a year

For the sake of Security, Change Password two times a year

Jakarta - Change your password twice a year and never use it again. That is one of the tips listed in the recommended list of Google's online security to block the action of scammers.

Since most Internet users wary of a spam message at this time, the trickster in the cyber world is now increasingly focus on popular web services like Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo or Hotmail.

Reported by PC World and quoted Waone media on Monday (18/10/2010), they generally break into the account, then send their message to the people in your contacts list. The cyber fraudsters were hoping in this way can be more effective because it is sent through an account known as the recipient of the message.

"Of course, because people tend to respond to messages received from people he knew," said researchers from antivirus vendor Webroot, Andrew Brandt.

Victims generally do not know if their account has been infiltrated by someone else. According to Google, there are many ways in which this can happen. Among them, the username and passwords are often stolen through phishing attacks, or it could be through malicious software that records software and passwords typed on the computer. Sometimes, cyber criminals to hack into the website is also linked to Google accounts.

Brandt said that Google's suggestion to change the password two times a year is very reasonable. In fact according to him, the user computer or gadget they have to change passwords frequently.

Google also recommends that passwords used to be difficult for others to guess but easy for us to remember.

Editor by Wawan hermanto