Have you ever been in a location where you need Internet access and you use your mobile phone as a Personal or Portable Hotspot. Essentially you use your mobile phone's Internet connection as a WIFI for your laptop or other devices.
Upon setting this up initially, you might find that your device will provide you with a password to use. How convenient! However, you might give consideration before making use of that connection.
In a recent test, researchers found that the list of words selected for these default passwords was little under 2000, and with equipment that could try 390,000 guesses per second, were able to crack the password in under a minute.
Have you evaluated your password recently ? How secure is your password ? Social networking is an open book when it comes to your life, is your password made up of names of places or children or maiden names - things that could easily be guessed from the locations of your photos, or list of children you mention in your posts?
Why not see how secure your password methodology is? Follow the link below and try out a few passwords to see just how secure they are:-
http://password.social-kaspersky.com/en
Certainly consider changing any default password that your device thinks up. Why not put THAT password in the web site above and see just how secure it is?
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