Often times when we first create a new account selecting a good password is one of the least important thing on our minds. It is however, crucial to select a good password for all your accounts soul has to keep others and hackers from accessing your accounts. You may lose your personal information, name address, Social Security number and even money from your bank account.
There are a few rules of thumb that everyone online and follow when selecting a very good hack proof passport for any type of account online. Whether it would be your e-mail, MySpace account, online checking account and other favorite sites online that require that you use a password.
Here are some tips to help you pick a hack proof password.
1. Any word used in the password should not come from any type of dictionary. This includes names and acronyms. By you using words/names/acronyms for your passwords, makes the password much easier for a hacker or anyone to guess the password. Every name plus every word in the dictionary will fail under a simple brute force attack software tool.
2. The password you use should contained both letters and numbers. Preferably in alternating sequence ie p2f5j8b9c. adding numbers to your passwords will increase the difficulty for anyone including hackers to guess it.
3. The more characters you use in your password length will make it much more difficult for a hacker to guess. A password length of 6 to 8 is very good, but 10 to 14 characters who make it extremely difficult for a hacker to guess your password.
4. Try using lowercase and uppercase characters and special characters like %$#@&. By just adding one capital letter and asterisk “*” to your password of 6 to 8 characters will take a hacker from 3 hours to 3 centuries to guess using a brute force hacking software tool.
5. To play it super save you shouldn’t save your password in any open un-locked file on your computer, unless you can lock it with a password. Never tell anyone your passwords, sounds stupid, but people will give their password to a friends or to someone they trust.
6. If you need to write down your password because you’re really forgetful write it on a piece of paper and keep it in a safe place until you memorize it. Then destroy the paper with the password once you have it memorized.
7. Remember to change your password at least once a month for critical accounts that are important to you that must never be hacked into.
8. If you thought of a good password and want to test it, you can try Microsoft’s password strength tester to find out how secure it is.
Don’t do this, Password Tips:
1. Don’t use your pet’s name, child’s name, partner name or your own name, (that’s the first password guess someone will try, your name.)
2. Never use “password” or 123, 123, 1234, 123456.
3. Don’t use your city, college, favorite sport team name for a password.
4. Don’t use your birth date, your child’s or partner’s birth date.
The password hackes tools and apps.
One of the easiest ways for a hacker to gain access to information on your account is to use a brute force attack program. All hacker has to do is download a free brute force attack software and use it to guess your password and login to your account. You probably use the same password for a lot of your account this makes it easy for the hacker to gain access to your accounts using the same password for all. A brute force attack program as Brutus, wwwhack or THC Hydra can try over 10,000 different usernames and passwords in a very short time.
Note: I realize most people don’t care about hack proofing their passwords until it’s too late and they’ve learned a hard lesson. So do yourself a favor and take a little time to hack proof your passwords. If this how-to guide is followed correctly you should never have a problem with your account being hacked into. If you suspect someone has accessed your accounts it’s a good idea at this time to change your password ASAP.
