Hacked....?

[bazza2210]

As long as server software and forum software is kept up-to-date things should be pretty safe. The site is also using a secure certificate which helps protect data sent between the web browsers (on peoples computers) and the server.

I host many sites, about 400 for the past 7 years and none have been hacked because I keep the servers up-to-date and all site software up to date. The simplest things help the most!

The easiest way for a users account to be hacked is due to poor/simple passwords, which a lot of people use. I recommend using hard passwords, ones like cHq58#6$n@DyHDF7 etc etc. Password generators and scripts would have a hard time cracking a password like that.

Never use the same password twice on the internet either. Use a password generator like the following:

https://identitysafe.norton.com/password-generator/

Use a program like 1Password to remember your passwords.

Problem with those hard passwords consisting of random numbers and letters is that nobody's going to remember them so they'll have to write them down...

One easy way to create very safe passwords for different sites is (which are also easy to remember) First you for example count the letters in the sites domain, on this site, "prospectingaustralia.com" it would be 25. and then after that add some random sentence (which is the same on all sites) that you'll remember... for example Ireallylikedoughnuts

so password for this site would be: 25Ireallylikedoughnuts
password for some other site would be 20Ireallylikedoughnuts

This is a good way of creating passwords, I would go an extra step by replacing some letters with numerics for example s = 5 , o = 0, l = 1, g = 9 etc and that adds an extra degree of complexity that is easy to remember

 

[Ramjet]

I read a good way to remember passwords is to have just 4 simple words like horse, table, carrot, shoe. Join them together and add a couple of numbers. It creates a long password but you only need to remember 4 words.