Creating A Strong Password & Keeping It Safe

"Your passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you've stored on your computer and in your online accounts.

If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions. In many cases you would not notice these attacks until it was too late.

Fortunately, it is not hard to create strong passwords and keep them well protected."


A strong password is:

• Lengthy
• Not a word or common phrase
• Made up of case sensitive characters, numbers, and punctuation marks/symbols
• Isn't used in more than one place. Always use a different password for another website or computer. Computers holding the passwords can get hacked, and can then be used to access multiple accounts if the password is used in more than one place.

The easiest way to generate a safe password, is with a password generator. These will create extremely secure passwords, if the proper settings are used.

A great password generator is found here:
http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/

Use the following settings, and you will generate a great password like the following. Obviously you wouldn't use this one.


Remember, use a separate password everywhere!
Also;

If you want to protect yourself further, try this Firefox add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383


Cheers.

 

Agreed, thanks for the website.

 

Oo nice website this will help me lots. Thanks Eric.

 

Also: write your passwords down, god damn. We can secure bits of paper -- we can't secure bits of data nearly as effectively.

 

wow thanks alot (really), i've been needing a new password

 

ya thanks been usin same pass on rs for like 1 year

 

You might want to look into this Firefox add-on and consider working it into this guide.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383

 

thanks for this. but can you put symbols down in some passwords? like in runescape?

 

awesome thanx =]

 

Another trick is to take your favorite color, band, and food with 3 numbers... Should be random enough...

Like "BFLP114" for example.

 

Thank You soooo much! I can finally have secured accounts without having people hacking into them. Thank You once again and have a nice day!

Eric E.

 

Very nice guide my friend, I'll be using this program later on. You've added pictures when neccisary and great detail.

 

Maybe add something about changing the password on a regular basis mate?

 

nice very nice guide, i just don't the point, because i make up passwords such as home791jan like whose gonna figure something like that out? i am basically combining words that dont make sense such as keyboardunited891u whose gonna figure that out? i understand keyloggers, but i heard of programs yet not verified yet that block keyloggers from stealing passwords, what it does is basically just sneds random letters, anyways how am i supposed to enter some of the characters in the password shown like a question mark :S?

 

You copy and paste it in.

 

Well, I personally change my password every 2 weeks. I use paswords which are related to myself but makes no sense.

E.g: I love fruits, however I make in incoherent. fruitsucktits564

So this will keep any fucking hackers from getting my password. Also mate, great guide. Hope to see more of your guides in the near future.

 

thanks for this, my kind of passwords are random like
4xe9spe13 or t73dv3utgh and they are very hard hack into due to them being long and confusing.

 

why should i use a other password everywhere and isn't it this is simple to forget ??

 

ty but mroe most pass's can it not contain those symbols?

 

wow thanks this is a great way