Hey Folks,
This is way off topic but I do see a number of you are still using Yahoo email addresses. If you are do read this link for some sound advice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html?_r=0
The bottom line is that Yahoo email accounts were breached several times around 2013/2014 and possibly later. Around 1 billion accounts were lifted. This means two things:
1. Your yahoo security questions, details etc were lifted and have or may be sold to spammers/fraudsters in future
2. Yahoo doesn't take security very seriously (until recently when Verizon tried to buy them)
My advice, do NOT use yahoo email services. There are plenty of email providers out there that are low cost or free or ultra private/secure if that's your thing. Gmail, zoho, microsoft and others provide email services that take security (not so much privacy in the case of Google) very seriously. Use them.
Another point most of us are guilty of, re-using passwords. Don't do it. If you like me have serious issues remembering strong passwords consider subscribing to password services like lastpass.com and dashlane. They offer online and/or offline encrypted storage of your passwords and will generate very strong/unguessable passwords for every online service/bank you use.
In this day and age more and more services are heavily reliant on email as the primary user identifier so it becomes much more relevant to have a good provider on your side even if it's no longer a free provider.
Take care.
This is way off topic but I do see a number of you are still using Yahoo email addresses. If you are do read this link for some sound advice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html?_r=0
The bottom line is that Yahoo email accounts were breached several times around 2013/2014 and possibly later. Around 1 billion accounts were lifted. This means two things:
1. Your yahoo security questions, details etc were lifted and have or may be sold to spammers/fraudsters in future
2. Yahoo doesn't take security very seriously (until recently when Verizon tried to buy them)
My advice, do NOT use yahoo email services. There are plenty of email providers out there that are low cost or free or ultra private/secure if that's your thing. Gmail, zoho, microsoft and others provide email services that take security (not so much privacy in the case of Google) very seriously. Use them.
Another point most of us are guilty of, re-using passwords. Don't do it. If you like me have serious issues remembering strong passwords consider subscribing to password services like lastpass.com and dashlane. They offer online and/or offline encrypted storage of your passwords and will generate very strong/unguessable passwords for every online service/bank you use.
In this day and age more and more services are heavily reliant on email as the primary user identifier so it becomes much more relevant to have a good provider on your side even if it's no longer a free provider.
Take care.