How to secure a password

[`Rοmeο]

The first step for online security is a secure password. Everyday millions of passwords are being hacked because users don’t pay much attention to secure their password’s.

 

So here is some Do and Don’t to secure your password:

 

DON’T :

 

• Use personal information that could be easily guessed or accessed, like your birthday (which happens more often than you might think) — it’s easy for you to remember, but easy for someone shady to find
  
• Use actual words that you can find in actual language (any language)
  
• Use the same password for all of your accounts
  

 

 

DO :

 

• Use a different password for each account
  
• Combine capital letters, numbers and special characters
  
• Change your password once every three months or so — and immediately if a site notifies you of a security breach
  
• If you are using Firefox: use the Master Password feature in Firefox
  

 

By now you’re probably thinking, “I can’t remember my keys in the morning. How am I supposed to remember all these new passwords all the time?”

 

Here are a few steps to creating easy-to-remember passwords that are still secure.

 

 

1. Choose a phrase — let’s try “My name is Romeo and i am happy.”

2. Use the first letter in each word and capitalize the first one: Mniaaiah (M>> My, n>>name, i>>is, a>>Romeo, a>>and, i>>i, a>>am, h>>happy.)

3. Make it stronger by adding a special character: Mniaaiah!

4. Now, associate it with each website you log in to. For example, you could use YT for YouTube, FB for Facebook, your bank’s initials — you get the point. So your password would now look like this:

 

YTMniaaiah! (for YouTube)

FBMniaaiah! (for Facebook)

 

Choosing secure passwords will go a long way to keeping you safe online.

[Analyser_]

Hmm a nice one good idea that with Youtube I will try it :)

[Matthew]

Rolf,usefull topic.

 

I mean,come one,who will change his password every 3 months? Get real.

[Analyser_]

Rolf,usefull topic.

 

I mean,come one,who will change his password every 3 months? Get real.

 

I do it :)

[Stewie]

Now days Administrators are poor and angry... so better change password, or use it on security websites/forums/servers

[MrHotFire]

Rolf,usefull topic.

 

I mean,come one,who will change his password every 3 months? Get real.

 

Exactly.I change it every month.;)

[MrHotFire]

I do it :)

 

 

Pro.;)