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Tips for creating a secure, strong password

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This article offers some tips creating a secure password and describes some ways to keep your Yahoo! ID and password strong.

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To defend against fraud and malware, change your password regularly and make it as secure as possible. Malicious users go to great lengths to obtain your information and access your account, using methods such as password guessing programs, viruses that log every keystroke you type ("keylogging"), and websites that are disguised to look like sites you know and trust.

Here are some tips for how to keep your personal information secure:

Things you should do:

1. Create passwords that are easy to remember but hard for others to guess. Ideal passwords have combinations of both upper and lower case letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers. The most secure passwords generally utilize eight or more characters. In other words, the longer the password, the more secure it will be.
2. Use the entire keyboard, not just the letters and characters you use or see most often.
3. Don't use the same password for everything. If someone acquires that one password, they could use it to access your accounts with other sites.
4. Equip your computer with firewalls and virus protection software.
5. Keep a record of your passwords.

Here are some pitfalls to avoid:

1. Avoid using sequences or repeated characters. Examples: 12345678, 222222, abcdefg, or adjacent characters on your keyboard (QWERTY).
2. Avoid using personal information like your name, birthday, or your driver's license number.
3. Never give out your password to anyone, not even friends.
4. Don't fall for "phishing" attacks. Be careful before clicking on any link asking you to log in, change your password, or provide any personal information, even if it appears to be from a legitimate site. When in doubt, log on manually by typing what you know to be the site's URL into your browser's address bar.
5. Only type your login information for Yahoo! products into sites that end with "yahoo.com".
6. Most legitimate login URLs (web addresses) have a level of security set on them and start with "https://" instead of "http://"

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