Category «Online Services»

Password security

Changing passwords regularly is important to avoid being hacked.  For all your online websites.  Also is having proper passwords following some basic guidelines.  Hostpapa for example, just sent me an email letting me know their improving security by automatically forcing us to change our passwords every 90 days.  This is a pain in the *** …

Myth – My calendar/email is web based so I don’t have to backup!

Wrong!  You can see an example here that someone hacked into another’s Gmail account and deleted all their contacts.  http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=443bbd4612d26728&hl=en Also, other examples of online information mysteriously being deleted: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=751281f43e826463&hl=en Google deleted my blog on blogspot.com because they claimed it was due to spam.  When I went to restore it with the option when I login, …