How ANYONE can makeup insanely better passwords

The Most Popular Password Of 2016

According to Keeper Security, the most popular password of 2016 is 123456 — This from a analysis of 10 million leaked passwords. Are you one those people still using the 123456?

If so, here are some easy steps on how to come up with an insanely strong passwords, and keeping them secure.

1. Make it longer at least 12 characters — A 4 digit password can be cracked in less than 10s while 6 character password take 11 hours.
2. Use Upper Case Letters
3. Use Lower Case Letters
4. Use numbers, you can easily do this by changing certain letters to numbers, for example, you can use “5” instead of t in word “cat”
5. Use special characters like # , @, $, &
6. Mixit up with upper case, lowercase, numbers and special characters
7. Have fun with it and create a theme (e.g favorite books) around your passwords thus you could easily remember

Here is an example of how each of these steps strengthen the time to crack your password during an online brute force attack.

estimated using various online password cracking tools

Now that you know how to create strong passwords, here are few other tips on how to keep them secure

1. Don’t reuse it across multiple accounts, if one of the account is hacked, all your accounts are exposed to hackers
2. Don’t share it with others
3. Don’t write it down on sheet of paper — if you need to help remembering use a password manager software like lastpass
4. Change it often, for important accounts, do it at least once every three months, and other accounts at least once a year.

You can add additional protection to your accounts by turning on two factor authentication. Learn more about it, in my blog on locking up email accounts

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