[OPLINLIST] Family Tech Support Day

[SWON Info]

It’s Thanksgiving! A time to be with family so they can ask you all the 
tech support questions they’ve been saving up. This year, do them an 
extra favor and help them create better passwords.

A good password is long and unique to each account and isn’t easily 
guessed. Yes, people still use “12345678” and “password”. These accounts 
are very easily accessed, since they’re in the dictionaries that hackers 
use to try to get into accounts.

Adobe recently fell victim to hackers, with 130 million passwords of 
active and inactive users stolen. That includes everyone who has used 
Adobe Digital Editions to access library ebooks, by the way. You can 
read more about it and see the top 20 most common passwords people used 
for their Adobe accounts 
<http://mashable.com/2013/11/05/20-most-popular-passwords-adobe/>.

If you used the same password for your Adobe account and your email 
account, that’s extra bad news. That hacker could access your email, 
since your email address may have been stolen along with the password. 
With access to your email account, they can reset passwords for 
high-value websites like banks, which often validate password changes 
through email. Scary, right?

Protect yourself better by creating a password around 20 characters 
long, and choose multiple, unrelated words. Even better, create a 
combination of words, numbers and special characters. You can even use 
your own pattern like this one: special character, word, numbers, 
special character, word. Like this: “%shatter61103+Zinc” which, because 
it’s odd, is actually fairly easy to remember.

Next, use software like LastPass <https://lastpass.com/> or 1Password 
<https://agilebits.com/onepassword> to securely store your passwords and 
generate new, strong passwords for you automatically. With them, you 
just need one strong password to get you into the software, and they 
store the rest. From shopping sites to email logins to my library card, 
I’m currently storing over 400 passwords in 1Password.

Get them using better passwords, and then you can start trying to 
explain Instagram selfies.

  * Nathan Swartzendruber, SWON Technology Educator

*Want more help with passwords?* Invite Nathan to come to your library 
to give a short talk about passwords to staff, patrons or both.

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Don't forget. Learn how to boost your digital memory with Evernote at 
SWON’s Evernote Level-Up Lab on December 10. It’s designed for people 
who are already using Evernote, but you’ll learn a lot even if you’ve 
just created an Evernote account. Sign up for the Lab here: 
http://tiny.cc/evernote-lab

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Calendar excerpts from the next two weeks. (Please register for online 
classes at least two days before they take place.)

  * *Thanksgiving Holiday - SWON office closed* - (11/28-11/29/2013)
  * *Staff Training That Wows
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=751>* -
    (12/3/2013) - Online
  * *PLAPPN Adult Programming (SIG) Meeting
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=417>* -
    (12/4/2013) - Clermont County PL, New Richmond Branch
  * *Learning and Libraries: Developing Communities of Learning
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=754>* -
    (12/5/2013) - Online
  * *SWON Executive Board Meeting
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=613>* -
    (12/6/2013) - SWON Conference Room
  * *Adult Planning and Services (SIG) Meeting
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=429>* -
    (12/9/2013) - Dayton Metro Main Library
  * *Serving the Underserved of Your Community
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=755>* -
    (12/10/2013) - Online
  * *Level-Up Lab: Evernote
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=642>* -
    (12/10/2013) - SWON Conference Room


SWON Libraries - http://www.swonlibraries.org
10250 Alliance Road, Suite 225
Blue Ash, OH 45242
phone (513) 751-4422 - fax (513) 751-0463
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