Web User - UK (2019-11-13)

42 13 - 26 November 2019

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Startbyenteringyouremailaddress

in theboxontheHaveI Been

Pwnedhomepage(haveibeenpwned

.com).^1 Youcanalsoenteranyone

else’semailaddressormakeoneup.

Clickthe‘pwned?’button.^2 Thesite

willcheckandreportbackif the

addresswasfound,andshowthe

numberofbreachedsites.^3 Scroll

downtoreviewthebreachdetails.^4

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ClickPasswordsatthetopofthe

page.^1 Youcanchecktoseeif

a passwordyouusehasbeenexposed

in a databreach(thereforemakingit

potentiallylesssafe,evenif your

accountwasn’tcompromisedthistime).

Enteryourpassword,^2 andclickthe

‘pwned?’button.^3 HaveI BeenPwned

willshowhowmanytimesthatpassword

hasbeenseenbefore.^4

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TheHaveI BeenPwnedwebsite

alsooffersa numberofother

usefulservices.NotifyMe^1 lets you

entera passwordandreceivealerts

if it’scompromisedin thefuture.

DomainSearch^2 letsyoufindall

emailaddresseslinkedtoa particular

domain.Who’sBeenPwned^3

providesanoverview of all recent

majorbreaches.^4

MINIWORKSHOP|Checkif yourpasswordshavebeencompromised

Checkif yourpasswords
arecompromised
Anotherwaytocheckthestrengthand
securityofyourpasswordsis touse
Google’snewPasswordCheckuptool,
whichyou’llfindin yourGoogle
account.Gotopasswords.google.com
andselectthe‘Checkpasswords’link
towardthetopofthepage,thenclick
the‘Checkpasswords’buttononthe
nextscreenandlogintoyourGoogle
accountagain.Aftera fewseconds,
you’llbeshowna totalofthe
compromisedpasswordsthatwere
found,the
numberof
reused
passwords
andhow
manyof
your
online
accounts
are
protected
witha
weak
password.
Clicking
thedown
arrow
under
eachsectionshowswhichsitesare
affected.
Clickthe‘Changepassword’buttonto
visitthesitein questionorclickthe
three-doticontotherightofthisbutton
toviewthetroublesomepassword,and
updateit ordeleteit.

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Test the strength of

your passwords

If you’re confident that your passwords

are so tough that no hacker stands a

chance of cracking them, How Secure is

My Password (howsecureismypassword

.net) and Kaspersky Password Check

(password.kaspersky.com) will quickly

disabuse you of this notion. Enter any

password into either site and they will

tell you how long it would take a

computer to crack it. The results,

however, can vary wildly – we entered

‘4camelshave8humps’ and How Secure

is My Password said it would take 227

million years to crack, while Kaspersky’s

tool said eight days, then later changed

this to 6,920 centuries!

Fake your email address

and identity

One way to ensure your email address

and passwords don’t get compromised

is to limit the number of places they

appear on the web. You can use a

temporary email address from the likes

of Temp Mail (temp-mail.org) on sites

where you don’t need to enter or share

any real personal data, or that you’re

only likely to use once.

Another option is to create a fake

identity to use when you register with

websites and have to create profiles

on them. Fake Name Generator (www

.fakenamegenerator.com) can build you

an entirely fictitious identity, complete

with a fake name, address (in a country

of your choosing), phone number, email

address (that actually works), date of

birth and employer. Other information

generated could include a fake credit

card number, bank account and

cryptocurrency address (don’t try to

use these for real!), as well as favourite

colour, car make and model, and height,

weight and blood type!

Find out instantly how long your

passwords would take hackers to crack

Google’s Password Checkup

tool helps improve your

password security

Protect your identity by creating a fake

one to use when signing up with sites