Creating a secure password is an important part of protecting your any account.You want a super strong password so that it's more resistant to guessing and so that it's unlikely to be found in a brute force dictionary hack.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Make your passwords very long
*Has 12 Characters, Minimum: You need to choose a password that’s long enough. There’s no minimum password length everyone agrees on, but you should generally go for passwords that are a minimum of 12 to 14 characters in length. A longer password would be even better.
*Includes Numbers, Symbols, Capital Letters, and Lower-Case Letters: Use a mix of different types of characters to make the password harder to crack.
*Isn’t a Dictionary Word or Combination of Dictionary Words: Stay away from obvious dictionary words and combinations of dictionary words.
*Any word on its own is bad. Any combination of a few words, especially if they’re obvious, is also bad. For example, “house” is a terrible password. “Red house” is also very bad.
*Doesn’t Rely on Obvious Substitutions: Don’t use common substitutions, either — for example, “H0use” isn’t strong just because you’ve replaced an o with a 0. That’s just obvious.
Don’t use a common phrase
But don’t use the same bunch of plain words as everyone else. If your password consisted of the entire script of Hamlet, it would still be unsafe if everyone else had the same password. “When in the course of human events” is a shitty password. So is a famous movie line, or a Bible verse, or even an acronym of a Bible verse.
Try to mix it up—for example, “BigHouse$123” fits many of the requirements here. It’s 12 characters and includes upper-case letters, lower-case letters, a symbol, and some numbers. But it’s fairly obvious—it’s a dictionary phrase where each word is capitalized properly. There’s only a single symbol, all the numbers are at the end, and they’re in an easy order to guess.
With the tips above, it’s pretty easy to come up with a password. Just bash your fingers against your keyboard and you can come up with a strong password like 5ot&l)p&3hxc4#t4. That’s a pretty good one—it’s 16 characters, includes a mix of many different types of characters, and is hard to guess because it’s a series of random characters.
Don’t store passwords in your browser
Those can get hacked, too. Some of Opera’s saved passwords were partially hacked last year. Even Google accounts are vulnerable. A hacker doesn’t have to defeat Google’s security—they just have to trick you, and it’s a lot easier for hackers to pose as Google and request your login than it is for them to pretend to be your chosen password management app. If your Google account gets hacked, you’ll be in enough trouble without also worrying about all your saved passwords.
Don’t reuse your password
When your password on some web service gets hacked (and it will), you’d better hope you didn’t use the same password on three other services. Don’t use a weak password for services that “don’t matter,” because some day you might give one of those services your credit card info, or use it to authorize more important services, and you won’t think to beef up your password.
Use two-factor authentication
While it isn’t foolproof, two-factor provides a layer of security for only a minimal loss of convenience. But not all two-factor is equally secure. Dedicated authentication apps are a lot safer than just getting a code over SMS. But both are safer than a password alone.
Remember, Everything is compromised
Passwords are bad and shit. Fingerprints can be stolen, two factor texts can be bypassed or rerouted, keys can be cracked or copied.
Its just impossible to have perfectly secure logins. Some day everything will move onto a new security system and all people
have to grab it.
The Only Secure Password Is the One You Can’t Remember
There is only one way to create a secure password, that is one you can't remember. with multiple alphabets, numbers, special characters. i.e: 2f6c^^46)!yq (#DcL:
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Make your passwords very long
*Has 12 Characters, Minimum: You need to choose a password that’s long enough. There’s no minimum password length everyone agrees on, but you should generally go for passwords that are a minimum of 12 to 14 characters in length. A longer password would be even better.
*Includes Numbers, Symbols, Capital Letters, and Lower-Case Letters: Use a mix of different types of characters to make the password harder to crack.
*Isn’t a Dictionary Word or Combination of Dictionary Words: Stay away from obvious dictionary words and combinations of dictionary words.
*Any word on its own is bad. Any combination of a few words, especially if they’re obvious, is also bad. For example, “house” is a terrible password. “Red house” is also very bad.
*Doesn’t Rely on Obvious Substitutions: Don’t use common substitutions, either — for example, “H0use” isn’t strong just because you’ve replaced an o with a 0. That’s just obvious.
Don’t use a common phrase
But don’t use the same bunch of plain words as everyone else. If your password consisted of the entire script of Hamlet, it would still be unsafe if everyone else had the same password. “When in the course of human events” is a shitty password. So is a famous movie line, or a Bible verse, or even an acronym of a Bible verse.
Try to mix it up—for example, “BigHouse$123” fits many of the requirements here. It’s 12 characters and includes upper-case letters, lower-case letters, a symbol, and some numbers. But it’s fairly obvious—it’s a dictionary phrase where each word is capitalized properly. There’s only a single symbol, all the numbers are at the end, and they’re in an easy order to guess.
With the tips above, it’s pretty easy to come up with a password. Just bash your fingers against your keyboard and you can come up with a strong password like 5ot&l)p&3hxc4#t4. That’s a pretty good one—it’s 16 characters, includes a mix of many different types of characters, and is hard to guess because it’s a series of random characters.
Don’t store passwords in your browser
Those can get hacked, too. Some of Opera’s saved passwords were partially hacked last year. Even Google accounts are vulnerable. A hacker doesn’t have to defeat Google’s security—they just have to trick you, and it’s a lot easier for hackers to pose as Google and request your login than it is for them to pretend to be your chosen password management app. If your Google account gets hacked, you’ll be in enough trouble without also worrying about all your saved passwords.
Don’t reuse your password
When your password on some web service gets hacked (and it will), you’d better hope you didn’t use the same password on three other services. Don’t use a weak password for services that “don’t matter,” because some day you might give one of those services your credit card info, or use it to authorize more important services, and you won’t think to beef up your password.
Use two-factor authentication
While it isn’t foolproof, two-factor provides a layer of security for only a minimal loss of convenience. But not all two-factor is equally secure. Dedicated authentication apps are a lot safer than just getting a code over SMS. But both are safer than a password alone.
Remember, Everything is compromised
Passwords are bad and shit. Fingerprints can be stolen, two factor texts can be bypassed or rerouted, keys can be cracked or copied.
Its just impossible to have perfectly secure logins. Some day everything will move onto a new security system and all people
have to grab it.
The Only Secure Password Is the One You Can’t Remember
There is only one way to create a secure password, that is one you can't remember. with multiple alphabets, numbers, special characters. i.e: 2f6c^^46)!yq (#DcL:
Because it takes lots of time to crack with brute force attack. Just use these kind of passwords and secure your online life.
Top passwords i cracked were just their cellphone numbers 😅
Especially indian accounts, Most of the password i cracked are just their phone numbers, boyfriend/girlfriend name (i.e: iloveyoualex). above 20% of people use these kind of dumb passwords.
Here's the list of worst dumb passwords used.
'123456' and 'password' top the list, just as they did in 2014 and 2015.
All but one of the numeric patterns were in last year’s top 25 oft-repeated passwords, including '12345,' '12345678,' '1234567890,' '1234567,' and '1234.' New this year was '121212.'
This year's list included 'Password' and variations 'passw0rd' and the new but predicatble 'password1.' It also had some pretty obvious words: 'qwerty,' 'login,' 'welcome,' and 'admin,' another new one this year. Old favorites include 'football,' 'princess,' 'solo,' 'abc123,' 'dragon,' and 'master.'
Other new words this year: 'hottie,' 'loveme,' 'sunshine,' and 'flower.' Oh, and 'zaq1zaq1,' which is what you get when you type up on the left column on a standard keyboard. (Yes, other people can figure that out.)
Secure with unbreakable passwords. Kindly do not use these kind of passwords.
