Users should also change their password for any site that used the same one that may have been breached on LinkedIn.
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But password laxity imposes costs even on sites with good security, since people often use the same password for several different places.
Chances are we use the same password for our Google Buzz account that we use for the corporate Active Directory login and for Salesforce.com.
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Loyalty cards are the Main Street version of requiring you to log in and provide a password for every website that needs to know you.
Rose, who was based in Aldershot, was banned for life for using social networks unless he informed police and gave them his password for the site.
It came right back up with no issue, and it seemed like everything was working -- until we tried to enter a complex password for another machine.
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Open ID was dreamed up as a way to ease the mental and administrative burden of having a different login identity and password for almost every website.
Reporting on the hack, technology website techcrunch.com recommended that Twitter users who have the same password for other websites like Facebook or their email should change them.
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He experienced a similar scenario after his grandmother died, and he tried to get the password for her e-mail account -- only to give up because of the hassle.
So if he is willing to bet millions on OneID, a start-up that promises to replace your user name and password for all your accounts with a single digital identity, OneID may be on to something big.
However the company offers tips for all of its users going forward, including using strong passwords that mix numbers and symbols with upper- and lowercase letters, not using the same password for multiple accounts, and disabling Java.
Usually, when connecting to any encrypted network, you have to enter the password for it in your wireless network settings, in which case your software may identify if a network is encrypted by WEP, WPA or WPA2 encryption.
Start by turning on password locks for your mobile devices and computer.
Password management software comes in many flavors, including password applications for IT teams to secure privileged assets such as critical servers, databases, routers, switches and applications.
Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens, which allow you to stay logged into the service without reentering a password, for all of these accounts.
Most importantly, Apple hints at a much broader strategy for password recovery with device peripherals.
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Once that happened, they'd call the help desk, to the tune of 30, 000 calls per month for password resets.
In 2011, Apple revised its in-app purchasing policy, requiring users to re-enter their account password before paying for enhancements within games.
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It appears that the company placed a copy of the game on its public server, under password protection, for select reviewers to download and try out.
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It's an unexpected outcome, but prurient and grotesque, perfect for vaudeville and above all for the burlesque that is the password that Berlusconi himself has chosen for his own destiny.
"More realistically, someone could use that as an entry point into another service, " Soltani said, noting that since few people bother using different passwords for different services, a password stolen from Twitter might be just as handy for reading a journalist's emails.
In some cases clicking on a link logged in to that account without the need for a password.
"Of course, even with this new security option turned on, it's still important for you to use a strong password and follow the rest of our advice for keeping your account secure, " he wrote.
For example, if someone from "IT support" calls you and asks for your password so they can help fix your problem, how do you know they haven't called everyone else in the building first until they found you who has really got a problem?
Some of the programs have different requirements for what constitutes a valid user name or an adequate password, creating the disadvantage of multiple credentials for a single human resources hub.
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If last month's Sony breach didn't already convince you to beef up your own computer security, now might be a good time to swap in 'Pa55werD1' for the rather pathetic 'password' you've been using to protect your own company's trade secrets for the last decade.
Such a combination is easily guessed, and can even be programmatically accounted for in a password cracking application.
So in settings, you can enter user name and password, and auto configured for Twitter for any Twitter app, no need to log in every time.
Putting a password on your phone is good for keeping a paranoid significant other from snooping.
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