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				<small>Tuesday, October 5th, 2021</small>

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					<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogs.sun.ac.za/it/en/2018/10/cyber-aware-month-common-passwords/"><img src="https://blogs.sun.ac.za/it/files/2021/02/k-v-i-poyd-027_2-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" align="right" />Before</a> we pointed out that most people underestimate the importance of having a secure password, and still make the mistake of using simple words and numbers as a password.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Keep in mind that your email and social network accounts contain very personal information about you. You must have a strong password to keep your personal life personal, and not become a victim of identity theft. </p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Using email or your profile on Facebook, Whatsapp or Google, hackers can and do, extract a huge amount of personal data of your personal &#8220;online&#8221; life.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">If you use the same password for multiple online accounts, you run the risk, if this password is hacked, of all your online accounts being compromised.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Using a personal name for an online account, the name of the city that you live in, the names of your children or your date of birth, give hackers vital clues for attempting to access your personal data.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">For an average expert hacker, it is always easy to find passwords that are made up of words from the English vocabulary or other languages, using a basic technique called &#8220;brute force&#8221; or &#8220;dictionary&#8221; attacks.</li>
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<h4>What makes a password safe?</h4>
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<li>A password at least 8 characters long.</li>
<li>The password does not contain information that is easy to find online, such as the date of birth, the telephone number, your spouse’s name, the name of a pet, or a child’s name.</li>
<li>The password does not contain words found in the dictionary.</li>
<li>The password contains special characters like @ # $% ^ &amp;, and numbers.</li>
<li>The password uses a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters.</li>
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<h4>A trick that the experts use to create secure passwords:</h4>
<p>Think of a phrase and use the first letters of the words in the phrase.</p>
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<li>For example: <em>&#8220;In South Africa, a barbecue is called a Braai!&#8221;</em></li>
<li>Take the first letters of each word and the password that is created is <em><strong>ISAabicaB!</strong></em></li>
<li>This will be very difficult to guess, but easy to remember.</li>
<li>At this point, you can decide to make your the Google password is <em><strong>ISAabicaB!-G</strong></em>,  and Facebook <em><strong>ISAabicaB!-F</strong></em> and your university account  <em><strong>ISAabicaB!-U</strong></em>S and so on.</li>
<li>There is already a capital letter and a special character <em><strong>(!)</strong></em>, so you just need to add a number to finish off a good password like <em><strong>9-ISAabicaB!-US</strong></em> <em>(9 could be the month you created the password in &#8211; for example)</em></li>
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<p>You will have already made your password a lot more difficult to hack, and it can be a lot of fun to create. </p>
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				<small>Friday, October 12th, 2018</small>

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					<p style="text-align: justify;">In the last article, we provided you with a few tips on how to <a href="http://blogs.sun.ac.za/gergablog/2018/10/05/cyber-security-awareness-month-creating-strong-passwords/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">create strong passwords</a> in order to make the hacker&#8217;s job harder at accessing your personal data. Using weak passwords is one way hackers and scammers get your information<em>?&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p><em>But <strong>where</strong> do scammers get your information?</em></p>
<p>The graphic below depicts the world where most of us find ourselves, and where scammers might obtain important snippets of our personal data that, in many cases, is there for the taking:</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignleft" style="border-width: 2px; margin: 3px;" src="https://blogs.sun.ac.za/gergablog/files/2018/10/this_is_your_world.jpg" alt="This is your world" width="619" height="348" /></p>
<p><strong>Your personal information is in places beyond your control.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The <strong>cell phone</strong> has become an indispensable communications tool in the 21st century. According to the Pew Research Centre, South Africa is placed 24th on the world list with a smartphone usage of 37% of the total population. However, according to a recent global survey by McAfee and One Poll, 36% of those smartphone users have no form or password, pin or fingerprint protection on their devices. This means that if their phone falls into the wrong hands, they risk opening up all sorts of personal information such as bank details and online logins to whoever finds or steals the smartphone.</p>
<p>How much of your personal information have you placed out there on the <strong>internet</strong>?</p>
<ul>
<li>Over 30% of South African Internet users share at least 3 pieces of personal information posted on their social media profiles that can make stealing their identity easy.</li>
<li>60% of South African Internet users have revealed they had no idea what their privacy settings are and who could see their personal information on those sites.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Old-style junk <strong>mail</strong>, invoices, receipts and ordinary letters can still provide scammers with a wealth of information. <a href="https://www.techopedia.com/definition/10267/dumpster-diving" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dumpster-diving</a> can reveal documents with your ID Number, old bank statements with your account details, old credit cards, unwanted junk e-mail, payslips and tax forms. Even old prescriptions &amp; medical aid claims can provide scammer with a wealth of information from your personal information.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The modern equivalent of a filing cabinet, a <strong>flash disk</strong> poses a huge risk to the security of your personal data. Flash disks are small and cheap and can often be forgotten plugged into computers, fall out of pockets and be stolen, providing scammers with all the data stored on that device.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Your <strong>bank</strong>, your <strong>employers</strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.sars.gov.za/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SARS</a></strong> all store and work with your personal information. You have placed a tremendous amount of trust in these organizations to keep your personal data safe. How many people at your bank, for instance, have access to your personal data, who can they potentially give that data to?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Your <strong>driver&#8217;s license</strong> has a lot of information on it, including fingerprints, date of birth and ID number. The new style &#8220;smart&#8221; licenses will hold even more information, and if the license gets into the wrong hands it can be used for identity theft. For instance, in order to open up a cell phone contract, you would need an ID document or driver&#8217;s license, bank account details and proof of address, almost all of which can be obtained by dumpster-diving or someone rifling through your paperwork.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, your <strong>computer</strong> <em>(at work or at home</em>) or your <strong>laptop</strong> holds a huge amount of your personal information. If stolen, the hard-drives can easily be trawled for personal information. If there is <a href="http://blogs.sun.ac.za/gergablog/2018/10/03/common-passwords/">no password</a> or a weak password on the laptop it makes stealing this information much easier.</p>
<p>This is your world:</p>
<ul>
<li>Since 2007, more money has been made from trafficking financial data acquired by identity theft, than money made from drug trafficking.</li>
<li>8.8 million South Africans were victims of identity theft in 2015.</li>
<li>1 in 3 South Africans do not have a <a href="http://blogs.sun.ac.za/gergablog/2018/10/03/common-passwords/">password</a> on their cellphones or computer.</li>
<li>70% of South Africans change their passwords after being compromised. (So 30% of South Africans don’t do anything even after they have been compromised)</li>
<li>1 in 3 South Africans admits sharing passwords with other people.</li>
</ul>
<p>There are 4 areas where we all neglect the security of our personal information:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Indifference</strong> &#8211; <em>Lack of Feeling</em></li>
<li><strong>Ignorance</strong> &#8211; <em>Lack of Knowledge</em></li>
<li><strong>Inability</strong> &#8211; <em>Lack of Training or Education</em></li>
<li><strong>Inaction</strong> &#8211; <em>Lack of Respect</em></li>
</ol>
<p>What can you do to improve your personal data security and to prevent identity theft?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>When someone comes and knocks on your front door, do you just open the door and let them in? No, you check who it is and then you <strong>decide</strong> if you want to open your door to them or not. The power of access is in your hands because you control the door.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The same principle applies to your personal data. Be careful and vigilant and be the gatekeeper of your personal data! Control what data is given out and who receives it. You have the control!</p>
<p>Next time we will look at the <em>modus operandi</em> of identity thieves. </p>
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