Is your head swimming with the need to create a new password every time you want to use a new online service? Mine is. Are you like me and can’t remember what you had for breakfast let alone your password you created six months ago for the esoteric website that you want to visit only on the third thursday of May? Good to know we aren’t alone isn’t it. So let me help you generate secure passwords and then tell you how I shift the “technological” risk to a “physical” risk.
Let’s start with my messaging that I’ve been sharing for years, passwords should not be a word found in a dictionary. Doesn’t matter if the dictionary is English, French, Chinese, Russian or Swahili a word found in the dictionary can be broken by any number of the brute force password attack software packages available off the net with ease. (See Online Safety, USERIDs and PASSWORDs October 2009)
I recommend, 8-14 characters, with letters (mixed case), numbers and symbols. Here is an example of a strong password: s?9stATAS53E . Here is another example of a strong password: N3verU$eWords. In my opinion, both of these will provide similar protection from the brute force attack. So now that we have a strong password, how can we make sure we don’t undermine the strength of the password? Don’t use it more than once.
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY A EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY. SHARE YOUR CYBER KNOWLEDGE FOR HUMANITY.FIGHT AGAINST CYBER TERRORISM.
FROM:KRUNAL UPADHYAY
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