Wednesday, September 22
HOW TO CREATE SECURE PASSWORDS AND ALSO TAKE CARE OF THEM
I know this question is tumbling into most of your heads. With many of passwords being derived lot easily and your accounts being accessed, and all of your confidential emails or other information being stolen, you can consider this topic serious. And most of you think you are secure just because you have your girlfriends' number or your date of birth as your password. But you're not. Numbers are easier to do a brute force than on alphabets. In this topic, I will try to give you some handy tips to keep a secured password, or least vulnerable ones, that would give the hacker a hard time.
Avoid Dictionary Words- DON'T use the words in the dictionary, until it's
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, the longest word on the dictionary. What I am trying to say is don't use words used in your daily life. Don't use brand names, because what if the hacker guy goes like "Hey! He rides a Volkswagen, why not try this as his password. I know he is dumb enough to keep his car brand as a password."
Combination is King- I know it gets hard to remember, but take it as a perspective, christopher is easy for anyone to guess, but cRisT0pheR isn't. cRi$t0ph3r is even better. We have a variety of characters, alphabets(both caps and small), numbers, and even symbols in the keyboard, so let's make use of it.
Length is king, too- The longer your password, the more secure it is. For example, if your password which has 6 letters in it can be hacked in 10 yearswith a brute force attack, your password with 8 letters would make it 15. I know you would have something different and better within the next 10 years, though.
DON'T ever use numbers- As I have told earlier, if you think using complex numbers as your password will make your password strong, than I would have to say that's the dumbest idea ever thought on Earth. To make you clear, if you keep '98234873' as your password, someone can find your password on the 98 million, 2 hundred and thirty four thousand, 8 hundred and 73rd count. But if you keep 'bullshit' as your password, it will be found in billionth of times. Numbers are vulnerable.
^those tips will somewhat help you to create a secure password. Now, let us look into how we can keep our password protected.
Keep your password a secret- Keep in mind the one who knows your password is only you. Don't give it out to anyone or anything. Don't give it out to random emails asking for your password, or anything.
Don't enter your password everywhere- Just because your passwords aremaskedyour passwords are shown in the '*****' form, then it is called password masking
doesn't mean you should enter it anywhere you can. There are phishing sites that look like your hotmail or yahoo or gmail login screens, but when you enter your password, it goes to the password thieves. So, think twice before you enter your password anywhere.
Don't save your passwords in your browsers- or if you do, don't let anyone else use your computer. Because browsers like Chrome and Firefox display your password in one click. So, if you have your passwords saved in your machine, don't ever give it to anyone even for a minute.
There are more than many vulnerability issues to your passwords, so be careful before you do anything related with your password or you will be regretting anytime soon.
Cheers!!
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