Strong Passwords Equals Peace Of Mind

With Hackers getting smarter and technology growing, it is becoming imperative to secure your private information by utilizing strong and complicated passwords. Of course, you want to try and think of a password that is not only strong, but unique enough to you that you will remember it without writing it down, or worse forgetting it. Remember, the whole point to having a strong password is keeping out the hackers and fraudsters, not locking yourself out from vital information. Keep in mind that it is best to use familiarity-type words, combine them together and add some other combinations like capitalizing certain letters, using numbers, using special characters, etc. Don’t take the easy route with your password selections and use common words, as these are the first combinations that hackers will use when attempting to infiltrate personal information. If you are using any of the password combinations below, I suggest you change it right away. The following list was provided by PCMagazine and lists the most commonly used ones:

password
123456
qwerty
abc123
letmein
monkey
myspace 1
password 1
blink182
(your first name)

Hopefully this information will help remind the majority of you to secure your personal information and utilize good, easy to remember(familiar to yourself), and strong passwords

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Security