In the last week I had a customer almost lose his iPhone and a friend actually lose it. The lost one was only out of sight a few minutes before someone snatched it up and decided to make it theirs. By making it theirs I mean they went so far as to erase his voicemail message! So now there’s someone out there with his phone and all his data. While my friend was able to shut off service to it and reclaim the phone number, his personal data, email and other stuff is still on there. All the creepy thief needs is a wifi connection and they are able to get into his Facebook account, email and any other app that saves his password. Scary, right?
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I have visions of my little password with a couple of free weights in its hands. While your Mac has survived against malicious attacks due to security through obscurity, that won’t always be the case. Apple is gaining in popularity and is becoming a larger part of the market share. Why does this matter? If you were a hacker or an evil doer would you waste your time if you only had a 10% shot of your hack working when you have an 80+% shot on it working on a PC? Probably not. What if those numbers start to shift and you have closer to a 45% shot either way? You might hear more and more stories of Macs being hacked or getting viruses. First step to protection is better passwords. I can’t tell you how many computers I come across that have blank passwords due to people not wanting to have to remember yet another password. You don’t have to make it hard on yourself to have a great password. Use this little trick to help your sanity and security.
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