Every AITP member controls the first line of defense in protecting his or her own personal and financial information maintained in electronic form -- picking and using effective passwords.
"If there's one lesson to be learned from the rash of hack attacks recently, it's the value of a strong password," reports Shan Li in a Los Angeles Times Tech Savvy article carrying the headline "How to pick a password that's hard to hack."
Click here for an older, but still relevant article about passwords that features 2006 Association President Mark Gilfand.
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