Research Shows Why You Should Keep Your Netflix Password To Yourself

If you were to ask somebody if they share their email account password with anyone else, the vast majority would probably say “absolutely no chance!”, but when it comes to media services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify, such password sharing is actually quite common. It may sound innocent, but when people are using the same password for their media service that they use for other accounts, it starts to become dangerous and the risk of account compromises increases. With daily data breaches and a lack of public cyber-awareness, we need to start to understand the risks of cybercrime. A good place to start is with password education. My advice would be to use a passphrase consisting of at least three random words with some punctuation or numbers to separate the words. This will make you remember the passphrase from just looking at it once and easy to enter where you have to. It’s also a good idea to change your media services passwords once a year. This will flush out anyone who has gained access over the last year who maybe shouldn’t. But where should you store these unique passwords and account details? I have hundreds of accounts and there is no way I could remember every single password I use. The answer lies with the use of a robust password manager. Password managers are a secure way to store passwords so that you don’t have to remember hundreds of credentials whilst keeping them all unique and complex. Once you need to use a particular password, you can open your password vault, possibly even using biometric security, and copy the password into the field required.  Read Less