How to Protect Your Online Passwords
It seems so unfair: Though it's difficult for us honest folk to remember all of the passwords to all of the sites and software we use, losing control of them is a big security issue. Here's some advice to help you avoid two common security problems involving passwords.
Why You Should Care: Your passwords are the keys to everything you've locked inside.
Scenario: When someone broke into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo mail account and published details that it contained, the incident drew public attention to a serious problem. You can generate an awesome, complex, random password for your Web mail account, but if the information you provide in the "secret questions" section of your online profile is obvious or easy to obtain, a bad guy won't have too much trouble convincing the Web mail service's password-recovery mechanism to hand over the password on a platter.
