06 January,2011 01:15 PM IST | | Agencies
A new year has just begun. And if you're like many of us, you may already be well on your way to forgetting any New Year's resolutions you made during an evening of revelry
If like millions of others around the world, you now call Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or Bebo your home, make sure you're not inadvertently letting the world see your dirty laundry.
Too many social networking users post personal or potentially embarrassing photographs or information about themselves and fail to use the privacy setting available in Facebook and other networking sites to determine what others can - and cannot - see.
Remember that by default, many social networking sites are designed to make finding your information easy through search engines such as Google.
You might not want that, however, as those who look you up on the internet - including potential employers - might stumble across your social networking site and get the wrong idea about you.
In Facebook, open the Account menu, click Privacy Settings, and spend some time configuring your account.
Each year, a new study comes out to confirm a tired old fact: most people use the same password for everything. And those passwords are not secure. The most popular passwords from one recent poll conducted by RockYou.com: "123456", "password", and "iloveyou", followed by an array of first names.
Make 2011 the year you get serious about password security. After all, your passwords are probably the only thing between you, your financial data and credit cards, and some hacker.
The highly rated, free LastPass toolbar integrates unobtrusively with every major browser and makes short work of both creating and remembering your passwords.
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