Password Tips and Tricks
Choosing a secure password is a matter of creating unlikely letter and number combination's. The more obscure your password, the tougher it will be to crack.
Step 1: Choose a phrase Take a moment to think of a phrase that's meaningful to you. For example, here's a quote from Ogden Nash: "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch." If you take the first letter of each word, and substitute '4' for 'for', you get: Hihas4ei |  |
Step 2: Add special characters
You now have a reasonably strong password, but this can be improved even more by adding some special characters:
#Hihas4ei:
Step 3: Associate the password with a website
#Hihas4ei:AMz for Amazon
fCb#Hihas4ei: for Facebook
#Hihas4ei:Ytb for YouTube
This is just one way of customising your password for each website. Reversing the order of the letters in the suffix, using only vowels or consonants, or adding some other characters, are all possible approaches that will improve security.
This technique means you can reuse the phrase-generated part of the password for a number of different websites. It would be a good idea to have a completely different password (phrase) for a site like your bank account, which contains high-value information.
Protect yourself today!
You now have a reasonably strong password, but this can be improved even more by adding some special characters:
#Hihas4ei:
Step 3: Associate the password with a website
#Hihas4ei:AMz for Amazon
fCb#Hihas4ei: for Facebook
#Hihas4ei:Ytb for YouTube
This is just one way of customising your password for each website. Reversing the order of the letters in the suffix, using only vowels or consonants, or adding some other characters, are all possible approaches that will improve security.
This technique means you can reuse the phrase-generated part of the password for a number of different websites. It would be a good idea to have a completely different password (phrase) for a site like your bank account, which contains high-value information.
Protect yourself today!
