How To Create a Strong and Secure Password

Most of the people don’t care about their account’s security and passwords. They try to make their passwords as easy as possible so that they can remember it easily in future.  If you are using web for a while, then you must aware about passwords and its importance.  It is very important to make your password strong because there are so many stories available of hackers who have accessed sensitive information of other people and misused that information in one way or the other.

It is necessary for us to follow certain precautions in creating a password for any type of personal account. Below are some useful tips for making a strong password for you.

Use different passwords for different accounts

Studies show that a 75% percent person uses the same passwords for different types of accounts. The password for their Gmail is also the password of their Facebook, Twitter and Paypal account. People uses this thing because they are so lazy in creating different password and using the same seems easy to remember for them. But, this is the biggest mistake and creates a big space for hackers to get into your account. Getting one account hacked means your every account hacked. 

Sometimes, it also happens that you share the password of any of your account which doesn’t contain any sensitive details. But, having the same password for others account too, makes them vulnerable to get hacked easily.

You should avoid using same passwords and secure your personal data from others.

Use password management software

As explained above that it is necessary to make different passwords for different types of account, managing such a long list of passwords is a tedious job for a normal person. The solution to this problem is that you should store all the passwords at a single secured place.

There are so many software available which can be used to store all the usernames and passwords of different websites which can be saved and accessed by a single password. In this way, you not need to remember all the passwords, only one password is sufficient to access all your accounts.

Avoid Patterns

People often use patterns to remember passwords. For example, if they have a password ‘facebook123’ for their facebook account and it is very likely that they will use ‘twitter123’ for twitter and ‘instagram123’ for their Instagram account. In this way all your accounts are on risk because having any of your account hacked makes other account hackable too.

So it is strongly advised that you should avoid using any type of patterns between any 2 passwords.

Change your password frequently

Keeping the same password for a long time increases the chances of someone figuring it out. People usually feel lazy (even me too) in changing their passwords because they have to remember it again.  But, if you change your password on a regular basis, say in every 3 months, then your account will be secured from hackers because it is almost impossible to find new password each time you change it. Also, the accounts which may be already hacked can get recovered by changing password frequently.

Avoid common passwords

Anything which can be related to you can be said as a common password. Common passwords can be your birthplace, your date, your pet’s name and many more. If you are using passwords like ‘12345’ or ‘qwerty’ (see in your keyboard) then your account may be on a risk.

Make Strong Security Question

People generally don’t care about security question which is required to recover a forgotten password and this is the biggest advantage to hackers. Having a little personal information, one can easily hack your account. 

Most of the time it is not your fault because the security questions are provided by websites only and they are so easy questions like what is your mother’s maiden name? , Your birthplace name, your pets name etc.  Hackers try these questions and it is very easy to answer these questions because they can be easily known to anyone.

The best solution for this problem is that you should give a wrong answer to these questions. There can be only 1 correct answer for a question but there is infinite number of wrong answer for the same question. So you have to use this technique to protect your account. Just select any of the security questions and give a wrong answer to it. Giving a irrelevant answers is even better. For example, suppose the security question is ‘what is name of your best friend?’ and my answer is ‘fingers’ which is not related to it. It is almost impossible for anyone to figure out it.

Make a Strong Password

After every possible step taken to protect your account, it is necessary to create a very strong password for your account. Following are some simple tips which will help you in creating a strong and secure password.

• Make a password of at least 10 characters. Less than this is not considered as a strong password
• No matters how long your password is, if it is in English dictionary then it is not a strong password
• Always try to include both numbers and alphabets in your password
• Use a randomly typed password i.e., type 15 to 20 characters randomly on your keyboard and use it as your password
• Make password from your own life, for example, ‘My children’s name are Michael, David, Steven and Mitchell’ will make my base password as ‘midastmi’
• Including numbers in the above password will make them even stronger like here I added their ages also. So password becomes ‘mi12da25st15mi8’.
• You can further include special characters to make it more secure.For example, mi#12da#25st#15mi#8

These are some of the simple and useful tips in protecting your account and its personal data from the hackers. I hope you liked it. Don’t forget to share this with your friends and comment your personal views in the comments below. 

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How To Protect Your Online Content From Thieves

As you all know, that writing and posting valuable content for your website or blog takes a lot of time and hard-work. All the efforts in creating a fresh and valuable content for your blog gets copied or stolen by thieves by just few clicks. Your content is your most important asset and you can't allow anyone to come and copy it somewhere else.

Protecting your content from such thieves is the duty of every webmaster. It is not easy to look for each and every post of your site but you must do some hard-work to protect your blog's content as much as possible. In this post, I am going to tell you some methods by which you can protect your online content.

Disable Right Click

This is the very simple and most useful tip in preventing online content. Most people don't copy your content by typing line by line,  rather they just select and copy the content into their page. By disabling right click of mouse on your web pages, people can't select and copy the content. This is the best way to protect your work from thieves.

Disable Right Click In Blogger

It is very easy to disable right click in blogger blog. Just follow these simple steps given below.

1. Login to your blogger's account.

2. Open your blogger dashboard and go to layout menu. Add a new gadget HTML/Javascript.

3. Copy and paste the following code into it. 

<!--MBW Code--><script language='JavaScript1.2'>function disableselect(e){return false}function reEnable(){return true}document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")if (window.sidebar){document.onmousedown=disableselectdocument.onclick=reEnable}</script><!--Code End http://mybloggersworld.blogspot.in>

4. Save the gadget.

Now, you will see that the right click is disabled on your blog. 

Disable Right Click In Wordpress

It is much easier to disable right click on a wordpress blog than a blogger blog. There are so many plugins available for a wordpress user. Click here and install this plugin on your blog to use this feature on it.

Add Watermarks and Copyright notice

Copyright notices are the 2-3 lines of text which shows or tells the readers that the written post belongs to you and copying some or whole of it is against laws. These notices works great because by seeing such notice they will fear that they are breaking a law. Also, it don't take too much of time in adding such copyright notices with your post. 

In similar way, you can also protect the pictures of your websites by adding a watermark. Adding a watermark makes the picture completely belongs to you and your site. People usually don't copy such pictures because using those pictures with your watermark will be awkward for them also.

Sometimes it also happen that people are not aware about copyright issues. They simply copy the content and not aware that they are stealing something. By using watermarks and copyright notices, you can avoid those people from copying your content.

Set Google Alerts

Protecting your content is one thing and catching the thieves who already copied your content is another important thing. After using all the necessary measures, there is always a chance of your content getting stolen by others. Google Alerts is a way to catch those people who are using your original content.

Whenever someone copy and post your content, you will get a alert. To get an alert, you first copy few lines of your post and creates alerts to be notified when this content appear online. Creating multiple alerts for the same post works best. Also, it is better to set alert from the first paragraph because people usually copy first paragraph more than the rest.

By knowing who has copied your content, you can check whether they provided a link to your site or not. 

If your content is already copied ?

The above methods are the best measures to protect your content from thieves but, what about the content which may have already stolen by someone. How to know whether your post is republished at any other place and if yes, how to find it ?

The answer of above question falls in this section. Here, I am going to show tell you about the 2 best tool to search your content on the web.

Search Your Content

There are so many tools available to conduct a search of the web for any content given by you. One of such tool is Copyscape. Copyscape is a website on which you can put the URL of your post and then it searches the web for a web page containing the same content as in your link. It will tell you whether your content is safe or stolen by some thief.

Search Your Images Using Reverse Image Search

Like text, you can also search for images. If you have a particular image and you want to know if there is any copy of it on the web, then you can use a reverse image search tool. In this kind of tool, you simply have to upload the image (no matters what name you have given to it), then it will search web to find out its exact copy and show you the results. If that image is not stolen then it will only show your website in the result.

Google Images is the best tool for this purpose. Click here to try it.

How to deal with theft ?

After doing so much of hard-work to secure your content there is always chances of getting your work copied. Whenever you came to know that your content is copied, your next step is to contact that website owner and discuss the matter. 

Prepare your evidence

It is important to prepare your evidence first before contacting the person because there is no proof that he copied your content from your website. You should be ready with proper proof that you were the first to publish that content online.

If your content is indexed on Google then you can show that date as a proof because you posted that content earlier than someone else.

Contact the Thief

After creating all the necessary evidences, its time to talk to that person. First, you should send a friendly message telling the person that he copied his content. You can decide whether you want that content to be removed from that site or you want a back link to your site indicating that you are the first one to publish that article.

In most of the cases, the blog owner will remove the content and your blog's content and ranking will be saved. If you get a negative reply to your friendly message or the blog owner not giving any reply then you can follow the next step.

Contact hosting provider

Now, its time to become serious and punish that person. You should contact their hosting provider and tell them what this website owner done to you. Here, you have to show your evidences and prove them that you are owner of that content. 

After this, their hosting provider will force him to remove that content and it is also possible that they will permanently remove his account. I am sure that till here your problem will get solved but if still you are struggling, then move to the last and most important step to remove that stolen content.

File DMCA Complaint

DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You can submit a complaint to DMCA to tell them to deindex content which was stolen from your website. This is a very quick process and the stolen content will get removed within a short period of time. 

DMCA also provides you so many useful tools to protect your online content.  

These are some of the ways by which you can protect your online content. I hope you liked it.

Now its time to share your thoughts with me and the others.

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10 Ways to Increase The Security Of Your Gmail Account

Gmail is the best email service provider till today and why not because its creator is Google, the name which is very common to everyone.Although, Google makes every possible steps towards protecting your account but there are still certain gaps through which hackers, phishers and scammers enters.

Gmail has been forging its security measures by adding new security features but many of us are not aware of it. In this post, I will tell you some technical tips by which you can increase the security level of your account. These tips are very easy to implement. Go through the whole guide and you will be protecting your Gmail with a much more security.

9 Ways to Increase the Security Of Your Gmail Account

1. 2-Step Verification

Google introduced this feature to make the security level of your Gmail account to a much higher level. After enabling this feature on your account, every time when you try to log in, you need to enter a code that is sent to your registered mobile number. So nobody can access your account with your password only. Without having your phone, it impossible to hack your account.

It is very easy to enable 2-Step Verification on your account. Click here to go to the setting page and follow the simple instructions and that's all.

You can also create a backup phone number and printable backup codes as an alternative if you loose your phone. 

2. Check Granted Account Access

The very important thing you should check to see if there is any suspicious activities happening in your account is your granted account access settings. If a hacker has a chance to get into your account, he will most probably add his own fake email for easier future access. 

So how can he do it ? He just has to hack your account and then click on Settings > Account and Import > Grant access to your account and they add their fake email address. Now, you knows everything, its your turn to go through the above steps and instead of adding a new email, you have to check is there any unwanted email on that list. Remove the email if you find it.

3. Check Your Filter, Forwading and POP/IMAP

The account is hacked when the user has his account signed on and he went to visit a bad site. The site has a backdoor to extract information from your Gmail account, and the backdoor is the Filter. Filters can transfer emails as long as the user has filter in his account.

Therefore, it is recommended to remove suspicious filters from your account to protect it from these bad sites.

4. Enable HTTPS Security

When it comes accessing your account in public wireless or non-encrypted networks, HTTPS could mean your security. Leaving this feature disabled will make easier for hacker to crack a path into your Gmail account. 

To enable this feature, go to Settings > General > Browser Connection and check the option "Always use HTTPS". Don't forget to Save changes.

By doing this, your account is protected by a secure protocol that provides authenticated and encrypted communication. 

5. Revoke Unauthorized Access

You have seen many times that to access a certain app, you are required to give access it to your Facebook account. Same thing also happens with the Gmail. To use those websites and applications you are required to give access to your Google account.

Many users are not aware of this security hole because it asks to access your Google account not Gmail account. This is one of the most useful trick hackers uses to hack a Gmail account.

Click here to see for how many sites you have granted this access. You can simply remove any site if you find any suspicious or unused site in that list.

6. Track Your Account Activity

One of the best method to know if your account is hacked or not is to check your account's activity. It is very easy to check your account activity and you can easily came to know about all the previous login and location of login on your account. 

Sign in to your account and in the bottom part of your mail, you will see a message "Last account activity : (xyz) minutes ago" click on the details and you will see access type, Location and date that you have signed into your Gmail in the past few days.

7. Adopt Browser Plugins

After doing so many efforts to protect your account, there are still so many expert hackers who can still have the skills to get into your account. To overcome this situation, we can apply browser plugins to your browser to increase the security level in your web pages. These plugins can check and warn you that you are trying to access a phishing and also it removes the unwanted threats.

Web of Trust is one of those amazing plugins which warns you when you access a bad site. It will inform you that you are visiting a website with a poor reputation. It is available in all major browsers.

8. Enhance Security Question-Answer

Hackers love to hack a account through mail recovery security questions rather than confronting your strong passwords. This is quite reasonable as most of the sites teaches you to create a strong password but never teach you to create a strong security question.

Here, you can do a simple trick. Make a question and give a wrong answer to it. For example, let's say your question is "Who is your best friend" then you can put the answer as "teeth". Make it as nonsensical as possible but make a answer which is memorable to you.

9. Make a Strong Password

Your password is the most important guard of your account. So, it is very important to make your password as strong as possible. 

You should avoid choosing easy passwords just to make it easily memorable. You should avoid simple passwords like "iloveyou", "password", "123456789", "1q2w3e4r" etc. 

Let's say you want to choose the password "Iwasbornin 1996", it is a very easy password. Instead of this you can choose "Iwbi1996". It is shorter than previous one but it is still more strong than it.

To make it further strong you can insert a special character after every 1 or 2 alphabets like "Iw@bi@19@96. 

Otherwise, to be in a more safe zone, you can use randomly typed 20 characters password and memorize it.

10. Never Trust Anyone

It may happen that the account of your relative or friend is hacked and the hacker now wants to hack your account also. So, he will send you email on the behalf of your relative and by sending spam mails, they will try to get into your account.

So these are among the best tips to save your Gmail account from hackers, phishers and spammers. There is no 100% guaranteed tip to protect your account but after using these above tips, the chances of your account getting hacked will be greatly decreased. I hope you liked this guide on ways to protect your Gmail account from getting hacked. 

Thanks for reading and share this guide with your friends also so that they can benefit from it.

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How To Forward Yahoo Mail To Gmail

Today,there are so many mailing services available but everyone knows that the best of out of all is Gmail and Yahoo mail. Gmail is a Google property so creating a account in Gmail gives you a wide range of its features. All the users of Yahoo mail when requires those other features they just create a account in Gmail but then it creates a problem for them to manage 2 different mail account.

If for any reason you to have to migrate from Yahoo mail to Gmail then you can still transfer all your Yahoo mail to your new Gmail account. You will then receive all your new mails of your Yahoo account into your new Gmail account. In this post, I will show you how can apply this in your Yahoo mail and start sending new mails to your Gmail inbox. Follow these simple steps given below.

How To Forward Yahoo Mail To Gmail

Step 1 : Log in to your Yahoo Mail account.

Step 2 : Now, go to settings as shown below.

Step 3 : Inside settings page, go to 'Accounts' and then click on 'Edit' button as shown in the picture below.

Step 4 : In the next step you will see a new page. Mark the 'Forward' options, write the address of your Gmail account and Save the settings.

Step 5 : You will be asked to verify your Gmail address.

Step 6 : Now log in to your Gmail account, check your inbox and you will see a mail from Yahoo. Open it and click the link to confirm your account.

Congrats !! You have successfully verified your Gmail account. Now you will receive all the messages which was sent to your Yahoo account into your new Gmail account.

I hope this small tutorial helped you to forward your Yahoo Mail to Gmail. If you still faced any difficulty then feel free to ask any doubt in the comments.

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How To Block Senders In Gmail

Most of the time you just feel annoyed by seeing unnecessary mails in your inbox. Those emails are known as spams. While you can't block messages from specific addresses or domains in Gmail, but you can set up filters to send those unwanted emails directly to the trash folder and you will never see them again in your inbox.

In this post, I will show you how you can set up a filter to get rid of those junk messages. Follow these easy steps to banish those unwanted senders.

How To Block Senders In Gmail

Step 1 : Log in to your Gmail account first, go to https://mail.google.com/mail.

Step 2 : Now, you will see 'Create a filter' on the top as shown in the picture below. Click on it.

Step 3 : In the next page, you will see something similar in the picture below. Write the senders email address which you wants to block in the 'From' space. Click on 'Next' and proceed.

Step 4 : Now check the box next to 'Delete it'. Finally click on Create Filter button.

Congrats !! You have successfully blocked that sender from your Gmail inbox. You will no longer receive messages from this sender.

Step 5(optional) : You can unblock the sender any time by again going to filter section and deleting the sender email from there.

I hope you liked this small guide on blocking a specific sender on your Gmail account. Don't forget to share this post with your friends.

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How To Set Up 2 Step Verification In Gmail

Everyday, thousands of accounts are getting hacked. Personal information of peoples are getting leaked and their privacy and money is in danger. If you are using a very easy or common passwords for your Gmail account or you are using the same password for different accounts then your account is more vulnerable to be hacked.

Google is known for its amazing features and one of those is 2 step verification system. In this system, if someone tries to open your Google account, the user has to provide a verification code in addition to the password of your account. The verification code is sent to your mobile phone, so the password is not enough to sign in to your account for a hacker, your phone is also required to hack your account. I think everyone should use 2 step verification in their account because it is free of cost and provides you the best security which I think no other security measure can provide. In this post, I will show you step by step how you can implement this amazing feature in your Google account. Follow these simple steps given here.

How To Set Up 2 Step Verification In Gmail

Step 1 : First, log in to your Gmail account. Now, go to Google Account Security Page.

Step 2 : Now look in to Signing in section and click on '2 Step Verification'.

Step 3 : Now you will be able to see a new window. Click on Start Setup and proceed to next step.

Step 4 : Now write the mobile number on which you wants to receive the verification code. Click on 'Send Code'.

Step 5 : Now provide the verification code sent on your mobile in the next step. 

Step 6 : If you are running 2 step verification on your personal computer or any other trusted device than check the "trust this device" box. You will asked the verification code to sign in on this device once per 30 days.

Step 7 :Now, click on Confirm button and you are done with it.

Congrats!! You have successfully set up 2 step verification for your Google account.

If you lost your phone

If you lost your phone and have 2 step verification turned on, you can still access your Gmail account. You can follow these steps to stop strangers from gaining access to your account.

• Revoke your current application specific passwords so that all the apps linked to your account will be automatically signed out.
• Change your Gmail password so that if someone else has your verification code, they can't log in into your account without your new password.
• Add a back up phone number if you have a second mobile device
• If you don't have a back up code, use your list of printable back up codes to access your account. 
• If you change your phone number, be sure to revoke access to your previous number on the 2 step verification settings page.

I hope this guide helped you to protect your Google accounts from getting hacked. If you have any questions or faced any difficulty in applying 2 step verification on your account, then feel free to ask in the comments below. Share this post with your friends also.

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How To Add Another Email Address To Your Gmail Account

Gmail is the best mailing service which provides you with plenty of useful features. You have so many services available to use with just one account of Gmail. Sometimes it happens that we have multiple accounts of Gmail and its become difficult to manage them all. It is a time consuming process to send Email from multiple accounts.

In this post, I will tell you how you can add another Gmail account to your current Email. In this way, you can send messages with your another Email address as the sender in place of your current Email address. You are not required to login in your other account and receiver will receive message with the name of your other account.

Add Another Email Address To Your Gmail Account

Step 1 : Login to your Gmail account and go to 'Settings'. 

Step 2 : Click on the 'Accounts' tab and then  click on 'Add another Email address' as shown below.

Step 3 : Now write the name and email address of your other account. Click on 'Next Step'.You are required to send the verification to your new Email.

Step 4 : Now login to your other account. You will find a verification Email. Look for the confirmation code in that mail.

Step 5 : Paste the confirmation code and verify it.

After confirming your Email address you will start to see a new Email address in your send Email as area. Whenever you compose a new Email, you have choice of sending from your 2 Email address. Its a very useful feature. I hope this tutorial helped the people having multiple Gmail accounts. 

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How To Download YouTube Videos Without YouTube Downloader

Many times you had watched a video on YouTube and then you wants to download it but YouTube don't have any direct option to download videos. You can only watch videos on YouTube and for downloading it you will need a downloader. Its not very difficult to get a YouTube downloader. You can search it on Google and download easily.

But I think it is more useful for those who needs to continuously download videos and if you rarely download then there is another way for you. In this post, I will show you how you can download YouTube without any YouTube downloader.

Download YouTube Videos Without YouTube Downloader

1. Go to http://en.savefrom.net/

2. Now write the URL of the YouTube video which you want to download. The URL will look like something http://youtube.com/watch?v=sdjfnkjfekChj

3. Click on the download button and wait for a moment.

4. Select the video format in which you want to download it.

5. Click on the selected video format and your downloading will be started soon.

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Download Any Website Page or Blog Post In PDF Form

Sometimes we come across many webpages and blog posts which are very useful to us not at that time but also in future. So we wants to save it for future. Many times it is not possible for us to copy it because the content is protected by disabling the right key. Also, if we copy and paste it ino MS word then it may look blurred to eye.

This also happens with me because whenever I found something useful I always want to save it for future use but when I copy and paste the content in MS word, it don't looks good and most of the time I never came back to those saved content.

In this post I will share you a very smarter way by which you can make a PDF file of any webpage. In this method you don't have to copy and paste the content. Also, it will be downloaded in PDF format which will look very beautiful and readable.

Download Any Webpage or Blog's Post In PDF Form

1. Go to Print Friendly

2. Copy and Paste the URL of the page which you want to download in pdf form and click on print preview.

3. Now click on PDF button as shown below.

4. Click on the Download button and your PDF will be downloaded very soon.

I hope you like this trick. Comment below if you have any problem related to this or you want to suggest something new.

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