Hi there,

I was just reading a post by Willie Crawford on the Warrior forum. He explained how theives are using ‘Myspace’ and similar social bookmarking sites to steal peoples log-in details.

Using these they are then able to gain access to peoples paypal and other banking accounts, email addresses – the whole works.

You can read the full post here.

Many people use the same password for multiple accounts which makes life easy for the lowdowns…

I personally use Roboform available from http://www.roboform.com/ (not an affiliate link) to generate and store all my passwords. It’s also works from a USB drive so even if your computer is compromised you won’t have your passwords stolen. There’s a free version which limits you to 20 identities and a pro version (small investment necessary) with unlimited identities.

Another great tool I use to help protect me from phishers is the Netcraft toolbar. Have a look here. It’s free and has picked up many suspicious sites whilst I’ve been researching.

Yahoo also have similar protection in their toolbar, however I’ve not used that so cannot comment on it’s effectiveness.

Don’t let the theives take you to the cleaners — be careful out there…

To your success, always.

Stuart.