When you create an account on a website like facebook , twitter or similar sites, you have to provide a new password. While doing so we usually provide a password that we can can remember easily but on the negative part it would be the weak password.
“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months” – Clifford Stoll
What is Strong Password ?
In a nutshell, a strong password must constitute the following:
- It needs to contain special characters such as @#$%^&
- It must be at least 8 characters long.
- It must not have any common words such as 123, password, your birth date, your login name and any words that can be found in the dictionary.
- a variation of capitalization and small letters
This is to make sure that in the event that one account is hacked into, your other accounts will not be affected.
How to Create a strong password you can remember
There are many ways to create a long, complex password. Here is one way that may make remembering it easier:
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How Strong is your Password?
Online services like Google’s Gmail or WordPress have password meters that calculate the strength of password as you type more characters into the box. If you don’t find any password meters on the site, you use online like the Microsoft Online Password tool (this works instantly)
You can also use Password Meter – an online tool that will not only rate your password’s strength but will offer clues on what you kind of characters can you add or remove to improve the password’s strength.
Conclusion
Generating and using a strong password is the most important thing that you should take note of is your internet browsing habits. When you are browsing in Internet Cafe, make sure that it has the proper firewall and anti-virus installed, make sure your network is secure, log out when you are done with your session and clear the cache once you are done.
What other methods do you use to generate your passwords?
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JK
Jan 22. 2011
Nice share and thanks for giving password strength checking tool. However, the above image is little unclear, so I can’t get things well! Give a link to it.
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Swamykant
Jan 22. 2011
Surely I will do that.
Vivek Parmar
Jan 23. 2011
use of special characters + numbers + non-remembrable name. all it makes a strong password
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Swamykant
Jan 23. 2011
Very simple formula for strong password. Thanks for sharing the tips.
Saket Jajodia
Jan 26. 2011
Some times its get hard to rememberer so many passwords.. So we can do is we can take few uncommon words (you may can try some common words also) which we can remember and mix it with special characters and number which looks similar with the latter in that word. for e.g.: if you take “backspace” in your password you can use it as “ba(K$p@cE”… Now in different account mix up with upper case lower case and like this from one word you can get many different passwords.. So if your one account get hack or something you can get little time to change to password of other accounts…
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Swamykant
Jan 26. 2011
It is good to change the password every six months.
Anne Sales
Jan 27. 2011
I used to use Roboform to generate passwords for me but of course they are too hard to memorize and I had to have roboform fill the boxes for me. However this is only useful if you are on your own computer since you have to install roboform in your browser.
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Simon Dingley
Jul 22. 2011
Not if you use RoboForm Everywhere and a Browser Plugin
Simon Dingley
Jul 22. 2011
Not if you use RoboForm Everywhere and a Browser Plugin
Ankit kumar
Jan 28. 2011
Hey good info,btw I use Lastpass.
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Swamykant
Jan 28. 2011
Wow. Thanks for sharing this information.
Karl Blum
Jan 30. 2011
This Microsoft online tool is just so funny. If I type my 10 digit secure password, it says its weak, but if I enter “passwordpassword” then it is STRONG.
I’ve described my password system here:
http://karlblum.net/blog/2011/01/how-to-remember-secure-passwords/
I think it’s a good way to generate and remember more than one secure password.
Bhasker Raj
Aug 23. 2011
When I checked my password it showed 52% strong but changed to new password and it is now 100% strong.
Good article that will help many who suffer from their password being hacked.
Thanks for the article.
MURALISANKAR
Mar 21. 2012
Nice one raja
Swamykant
Mar 21. 2012
Thanks Murali