Keep track of your Email accounts and their linked services--The Forgotten Security Step

As users, we are told all the time the following advice

"Use strong passwords, get a Password manager that will generate longer passwords with numbers, letters and and characters in order to make our accounts safer"

Sound advice, but when it comes to online security, is it possible we, as users, forget a very important detail,

"Keep track of what email you have attached to your online accounts"

We live in a day of multiple email addresses, some of us have accounts for School or work, some are throw away emails like Google, MSN or Yahoo addresses. Spammers and Hackers, who are looking to try to phish for information by sending you inbox "alerts" from services like Facebook or Linked In.

By keeping tabs on the services you have linked to log in from different email accounts, you can tell quickly which of messages maybe actual alerts from your services and which are in fact attempts to grab your information, or redirect you to any sort of questionable website online.

Messages are in fact being designed to look much more realistic, in many ways copying the look of how a message from one of your actual services looks. Logos are able to be found through any basic search engine, with a small bit of coding knowledge, a spoofing email can be created. 

Longer passwords are a great tool in keeping your accounts safe, Keeping track of which Accounts you have linked to which emails can be something done with a simple spreadsheet or text document, and can help keep you safe from Phishing attempts