IDG Contributor Network: Cybersecurity Awareness Month tips for online security

It's still Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so in today's post I'm passing on a number of security recommendations for online activity, some that the FBI has been promoting for Internet safety.

Never forget that any kind of business or work you do online -- including email, shopping, social media sites, and surfing – warrants some level of scrutiny. So spend some time during Cybersecurity Awareness Month thinking about what you need to do to make yourself less vulnerable to attack as you use the Internet.

Another diatribe about passwords

Changing passwords and making sure that you don't use the same password for multiple sites is still very important -- in spite of recent warnings that frequent password changes might result in simpler, more guessable passwords. If one of your accounts is compromised, you probably don't want all of them to suffer the same fate.

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