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How to Create secure Passwords |
Password is a key used to get persional information from your computer, if some malicious person steal your password, they can use your Account ID to open new credit card accounts or buy something online.
In fact, it is not hard to create secure passwords and keep your secret well protected, you should take action immediately, or it is too late when you were on these attacks.
What is a strong password To a stealer or a hacker, if you do not want them to guess your password, you should make a password that have random string of characters. You can do this by following crieria:
1. Do not use serial or repeated characters. "123456","111111" these are do not characters for secure password.
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2. Do not use your real name. If you take the real name as a password, it can be easily guessed by stealer.
3. Use a lengthy password. To ensure your password have 8 or more characters in length, actually 14 characters or longer is ideal.
4. Use a sentence that meaningful to you. The word is more difficult to stealer than number.
5. Add some special characters. “!”, "@", these special characters make your password difficult to crack.
If you accidentally lost your password, you can try recover it.
Keep your passwords secret
1. Protect your recorded passwords. If you write them on papers, do not leave them where you may easily forget or out of hand.
2. Do not tell your password to others. Other people whom you tell about your password may inadvertently divulge.
3. Change your passwords regularly. This option can help you keep out of malware record, even if your password was stolen, your password maybe not really lose because the malware probably recorded your previous password instead of current one.
4. Do not provide your password over e-mail and chat software. Any e-mail that requests your password is almost certainly a fraud, and e-mail can be intercepted in transit, this is very dangerous， the same as chat software.
You can also use software to manage your password.
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Tip & Guides on Recovering Lost Password |
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