Thursday, February 7, 2013

How to Make a Secure Password

How to Make a Secure Password

After Twitter halted an attack on its servers that caused 250,000 accounts and their passwords compromised, not to mention a string of hacking incidents among media websites, people worry about creating passwords that are strong enough to withstand hackers and keyloggers. You see, plain passwords no longer cut it. As Lauren Gores of Mashable puts it: “You may think you are clever, but to hackers, your password sounds like ‘Open Sesame.' People still use lousy, predictable passwords.” So predictable that a recent survey finds that the most common password is “password”; next is “123456″.

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