Today, 5 May, is World Password Day around the world, a day promoted in 2013 by cyber security professionals to raise awareness around the world to maintain a series of practices aimed at ensuring that the levels of security with which we carry out our online activity are optimal.
At Banco Sabadell we join the day by reminding you, once again, of a series of basic recommendations that you can follow to help guarantee the security of your data. Please note:
- Use passwords that are unpredictable and strong: avoid birthdays, anniversaries or birth years, as well as any other data that is easy to guess.
- Use different passwords for each of your apps: Don’t use the same password for four different platforms, because if they manage to break into one of them, the rest will be compromised.
- Activate two-factor authentication in those applications that allow it: based on a password and something else, such as a push message to your mobile phone.
- Never share your passwords with anyone.
- Change your passwords every so often.
- Don’t write your passwords on slips of paper or in notebooks that can be seen by anyone else but you.
- Don’t enter passwords if you’re in a public place where you may be observed by strangers.
- Don’t enter passwords in applications or web environments that aren’t trustworthy or whose source seems dubious.
- If you suspect that the password may have been compromised, change it from a device that is secure and uncompromised.
