Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Change your linkedin password, now!


Earlier in June, news that more than 6.5 million passwords from LinkedIn were reported compromised. The passwords are encrypted, but the criminals who stole them, posted them and asked for help to crack the codes. Apparently they are in a format that makes them relatively easy to break.

If you haven't already done so, please update your LinkedIn password, which is even more important if you use the same password on LinkedIn as you do on other sites.

In addition, you can use a password management plugin on your browser to store and generate unique passwords and keep them safely encrypted in one place, protected by a single strong password.