How Secure is Your Password?

10/17/2014 (Permalink)

Is your password secure enough?

Make sure that your personal information is secured away from all sorts of internet predators by following these simple tips in making your password.  Avoid having your password as the top most used passwords in the world.

• password
• 123456
• qwerty
• abc123
• admin
• letmein
• adobe123
• 111111
• azerty
• iloveyou

If your password is any one of the above 10 passwords, or even close to any one of those, then I strongly suggest that you change it and all accounts that it is bound to.

Most people who will be trying to steal your password will use a method called “brute forcing.”   This is a program that very quickly and efficiently comes up with all possible combinations of characters until it matches your password.  The way to beat this is to have a password that is so difficult to brute force that no one will ever take the time to do so.  Someone might wait 4 days to crack your password, but no one can wait over 400 years to crack a password!  The best and easiest way to make your password more difficult to brute force is to

1. Lengthen it
2. Mix uppercase and lower case letters
3. Add numbers
4. Add punctuation
5. Add special characters
6. Use this nifty calculator to determine how long it would take a brute force program to crack your password. 

http://lastbit.com/pswcalc.asp