Guide to having a stronger/more secure password!

[Occured]

Making a Strong-er Password is quite easy, and will save you much less hassle in the future. - As I found out to my cost.

Adding symbols will 99% of the time stop you being on a dictionary attack list/Bruteforce as it's only combinations of numbers/ letters - Here are some other
attacks doing this may avoid. - eg.MD5 Hash,Bruteforcing,Wordlist


Most websites will tell you to have a password with a certain amount of letter, or the use of numbers. You should go one step ahead and use symbols to keep yourself secure.

eg.
Weak:hello
Medium:hello1
Strong:hello632
Strong-er:hello632**


As you can see I added asteriks which would make it exetremly hard for a MD5 Bot to Crack or even a bruteforcer.

The thing adding ** is that you can keep your old password and just add **

Here is a list of symbols I have used for passwords:
**
$$
@@
¬¬
<<<<<I once added spaces to a password and it worked

 

[Firecape service]

Pretty good.

But you can't use this on Runescape.

5/10

 

[Occured]

No, but you cannot run a bruteforce on runescape as if you enter your password incorrectly too many times it stops you trying for 5 minutes.

 

[The Dark]

No, but you cannot run a bruteforce on runescape as if you enter your password incorrectly too many times it stops you trying for 5 minutes.

There are ways.

And Eric has already posted a guide on this, but better.

 

[Occured]

Bruteforcers NEVER use symbols

 

[Brandeis]

Theres already a guide like this and it's a bit more extensive.

 

[The Dark]

Bruteforcers NEVER use symbols

Don't know, don't post.

 

[Occured]

^ No dictionary attack runs through symbols.... Unless it's a custom one, even so they wouldn't include them due to the extra time it would take.

 

[cobra123]

realy good, i will change my password to very stronger ))

 

[Occured]

Paypal accounts are often used in dictionary attacks, so if you use paypal use a strong password. - This also applies for banks etc for obvious reasons.

 

[SuF]

To make your password very secure, make it random letters, numbers, symbols, and change the case of the letters. Do not use words or words in 1337 either.

 

[jamesy900]

nice guide

 

[RutuliukaS2]

When i create pw's i mostly use letters created from numpad .... like ....

'NO' = 147536974123698741 . Try to guess that

Also i like putting pw's from nokia names .... like 3650i and adding word like olleh (hello inverted) and combine those two crack cocaine rocks and smoke it !

 

[love2own]

When i create pw's i mostly use letters created from numpad .... like ....

'NO' = 147536974123698741 . Try to guess that

Also i like putting pw's from nokia names .... like 3650i and adding word like olleh (hello inverted) and combine those two crack cocaine rocks and smoke it !

^ thats how u make a gd pass tbh

 

[truepunkbret]

When i create pw's i mostly use letters created from numpad .... like ....

'NO' = 147536974123698741 . Try to guess that

Also i like putting pw's from nokia names .... like 3650i and adding word like olleh (hello inverted) and combine those two crack cocaine rocks and smoke it !

i do pretty much the same thing but with somy ericsom names ^^