{"id":86523,"date":"2022-01-19T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoclick.com\/how-to-protect-your-account-credentials\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:53:49","slug":"how-to-protect-your-account-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoclick.com\/pt-pt\/how-to-protect-your-account-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your account credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is very important that your ExoClick account is kept secure. In this blog post we show you some best practices you can carry out to ensure your account credentials are protected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>1 &#8211; Password tips<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hackers use specific software that goes through millions of dictionary words and searches for multiple character combinations. Potentially weak passwords are a security issue. These are some examples that you should definitely avoid:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t use dates, names, or places could be found in public records that are posted online, or scraped off social media accounts, so avoid your birthday, pet names, partner names, nicknames, etc all of which can be sourced by a hacker from your social media accounts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have had any personal email or social media accounts hacked, change your password immediately<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t use obvious sequences of characters, such as:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Close letters and numbers on English Keyboard: <\/span><b><i>qwerty123, qazxswedcvfr\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consecutive symbols <\/span><b><i>!@#$%^&amp;*<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consecutive numbers <\/span><b><i>123456<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same number repeated <\/span><b><i>11111<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t use words that can be found in the dictionary, even if some of the vowels have been changed into numbers. Even if baseball, princess, or dragon seems random to you, they are not. Those words and more are commonly found among leaked passwords in data breaches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t use any string of characters that appears on a list of the most <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_the_most_common_passwords\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">common passwords<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do follow Google\u2019s recommendations: Long passwords are stronger, so make your password at least 12 characters long. These tips can help you create longer passwords that are easier to remember. Try to use:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lyric from a song or poem<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A meaningful quote from a movie or speech<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A passage from a book<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A series of words that are meaningful to you<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An abbreviation: Make a password from the first letter of each word in a sentence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use a random password generator such as <a href=\"https:\/\/passwords-generator.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/passwords-generator.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>2 &#8211; Set a Unique Password per account<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common practice is to use the same password across several different accounts you have. That is not a good practice, duplicate passwords are extremely risky especially from phishing attacks. Hackers that breach one of your accounts will use the same credentials to access other accounts such as email providers, social media, streaming services, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to prevent this, it is highly recommended to never use the same password for more than one account, use unique passwords instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>3 &#8211; Use a password manager<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An easy way to have all your passwords under control is to use a password manager. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bitwarden.com\/download\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitwarden<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is an easy free open source tool to use, that allows you to access your sensitive information from anywhere on any device and ensures that you aren\u2019t reusing passwords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>4 &#8211; Change shared credentials when a business relationship expires<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We strongly suggest you take this one as a common practice and change passwords when an employee leaves a company, or you stop working with a 3rd party company that is sharing, for instance, your passwords or API Tokens. Remember that you can create\/remove and enable\/disable the API tokens in your Admin Panel account so that former employees or 3rd party companies cannot log in to your business accounts to ensure your data does not get compromised. You can find more information regarding <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoclick.com\/pt-pt\/use-exoclicks-platform-api-v2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to use ExoClick\u2019s Platform API v2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and set the API Token, simply check out our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.exoclick.com\/docs\/api-manual-overview\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ExoClick Documentation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>5 &#8211; Check for Password leaks annually<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, it is really important to check if your password has been leaked at least once a year. You can use these sites that will allow you to identify if this has been the case:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have I been Pwned?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/passwords.google.com\/checkup\/start?ep=1&amp;pr=sa\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Chrome Password Checker<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very important that your ExoClick account is kept secure, two-factor authentification is key, but there are also some additional things you can do for added security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":86515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1126,141,1134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.9) - 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