Sunday, 11 October 2015

Week #6 2013's List of Weak & Common Passwords

062524 worst passwords

If  your passwords are displayed here, go change immediately!


Tips on Making Your Password Stronger:

It needs to have 12 Characters, Minimum

Your password should include Numbers, Symbols, Capital Letters, and Lower-Case Letters: Using a mix of different types of characters to make the password harder to crack.

Stay away from obvious dictionary words and combinations of dictionary words. 

 Don’t use common substitutions, either — for example, “H0use” isn’t strong just because you’ve replaced an o with a 0. 


Try to mixing your password up with symbols— for example, Password can be spelled like P@$$W0rD. The use of symbols can be extremely hard to crack.


References

Top 25 most commonly used and worst passwords of 2013 ...(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.networkworld.com/article/2226175/microsoft-subnet/top-25-most-commonl

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