Using A Pound To Your Advantage

Strengthen Your Password – Use The Pound

Using a strong password is common advice, but how many of us adhere to it? Do not use an easy to guess password, it isn’t rocket science.  Try to avoid using any personal information in your password; if your website has links to your social media accounts like Facebook or LinkedIn then you could be giving information away for free depending on your security preferences on social media. Combinations of mixed upper and lower case letters, numbers etc.are recommended but have you considered using the pound £ symbol?  Perhaps you should, because as standard, it does not exist on a majority of keyboards.  Yes, it is available to type in using a combination of key presses for those keyboards where it does not exist, but usually takes a human to be at the keyboard to initiate the keystrokes

Usernames

WordPress comes pre-configured with an administrator account and log-in.  If you haven’t changed it yet, plan to do so as soon as practical.  Leaving it in place may be leaving your site vulnerable to malicious attempts to gain access. Others to avoid would also include ‘test’ and the name of your domain. Remember to hide any user login information from prying eyes – why give a potential hacker 50% of the login information? The combination of username and password is only as strong as the weakest link, so if your administrator has given you an easy to remember username perhaps ask them to change it then ensure you choose a strong password (as above).