Surely most of the readers of this blog are 'understood' of technologies and how important passwords are, they would also be surprised to know that even in 2010 the most used password is "123456". Surely you don't... or yes? O.O
How many different services/accounts do you have? In the maelstrom of the XXI century for everything you need an account, that is, a username and a password. For newspapers, forums, social networks, emails, voicemail, home banking, blogs, etc.
How many passwords do you use? Obviously, I'm not going to ask you to tell me, but start thinking. Don't tell me that you belong to the 75% of those who have the same password for everything. [Bitdefender] Well, that's a very common mistake, and one of the most dangerous. The reason? it's very obvious, you miss one and expose yourself to everything.
What can be done then? Well, depending on the importance of the service you can use more or less secure passwords. In my particular case I have at the top the emails, the antivirus and the account in logmein, followed by social networks, and to a lesser extent the other pages-blogs. The strongest passwords are composed as the golden rule says: more than 10 characters, uppercase, lowercase and numbers. And the less secure ones are common words and relatively easy to decipher.
[off= how I would like homebanking to support alphanumeric passwords]
Tip to create a strong and different password for each page:
It's true, it's hard to memorize a lot of passwords. Well, don't worry, the best way to have many passwords and not die in the attempt to remind them all (and obviously avoiding having a txt with all of them) is to put together a mnemonic rule. How? Think a little! Initially you need a way to identify the service/page. Secondly you need numbers and special characters.
I'm not going to tell you how I form them, but together and with an example you can make your own. You can take the first 3 letters of the service, the central syllable of the manufacturer and the last characters of the 2nd names of your parents (they can be children, grandparents or whoever you want). Now the numbers, let's not fall into the DNI, let's look for something less predictable such as the primary school number.
Assuming that we want to make the password of the messenger, and that you went to school nº 1583, that your mother has a middle name Emilia, and your father Marcelo, if we follow the previous steps we have:
manufacturer's central syllable: cro
last 2 letters of mom's 2nd name: ia
last 2 letters of Dad's 2nd name:
School number: 1583 In total we have 14 characters. We mix them the way we want preserving the integrity between the mini words, for example: Mom (mom is the most, so first she hehe) + manufacturer + school + dad + product = "iacro1583lomes"
Capitalize the letters whose position corresponds to the prime numbers (1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17...) and voilà "IACrO1583lOmEs" ... copada, right?
I hope I helped them. And remember, it is useless to have different passwords for each page if it is relatively easy to decipher the logic they have, it is only a matter of each one striving to create a rule that works.
PS1: This is 'one' way to do it, you don't need everyone to use this one. Modify it to your liking, whim, need.
PS2: don't forget to change them every so often :-)
Author: tucho
Source: Fabio.com.ar
Authors: Computer Security News
