We all know the importance of having a different secure password for each online account to ensure that the data in your digital life stays out of harm's way.

If you've been paying attention to the latest security news, you'll have realized that hackers have reacted to the fact that traditional methods of gaining access to your data have gotten more difficult and moved on to other tactics. Currently, the most popular way of getting into the accounts of a victim is called social engineering. 

Rather than try to break through a secure password, hackers use information that's public on other accounts to get into the one that they want. This is frequently done by calling tech support and pretending to have forgotten the password. Such methodology has been used for many high-profile attacks, like the one that happened to Wired writer Mat Honan last fall, and hackings on the Xbox Live accounts of high-profile Microsoft employees that were confirmed last week.

But how do you protect yourself from social engineering? Since it happens through them, many large companies are enacting policies that can help to prevent this issue, including encouraging employees to immediately end any phone calls that seem suspect. On your end, the best advice is to be as vigilant as possible. Never click on an email attachment if you don't recognize the address of a sender - even if it seems like it's one of your friends. 

Similarly, be careful not to provide any information - especially of a sensitive nature - either over the phone or on the web, unless you can identify who needs it and why they have need for it in the first place. 

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