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In today’s digital world one of the most important pieces of personal identity is the user’s private password. Passwords are used to protect various aspects of our digital life such as our AD user account (used to log on to network resources), email accounts (such as Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail and others), credit card accounts, online banking (such as PayPal), online shopping (such as eBay) and more.
Analysts estimate that about half of the people with digital identities will have them stolen sometime. Most of the victims will not even realize it until it is far too late, after they realize that someone has made transactions in their names and stolen their personal information and funds.
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Even if you choose a seemingly long password there is no guarantee that it’ll stay safe. Today’s script kiddies use easy to obtain scripts and programs that can mount brute force and dictionary attacks on your account.
Therefore, in order to help prevent your identity from being stolen, strong password requirements should be used as often as possible. Here are some tips to help you create strong, secure passwords.
Here are some example:
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This is a bad password: qwerty12345
This is a bad password: Admin12345
This is a bad password: asdASD123
This is a nice password: [email protected]$$w0rd!4MyC0mputer
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This is a cool password: [email protected]$$4MyPayPalAcc0unt!
You can even write a phrase, combined with numbers, lower and upper case characters, and special characters, but in a different language, yet type it in English letters. For example: [email protected]#$%12345 (my name in Hebrew, first name small characters, last name upper case characters, 1-5 keys presses with SHIFT, and 1-5 in regular numbers).
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