Everyone think for a moment: How many logins do you have? Facebook, Snapchat, Skype, email, online shops – WOW… Lots of them! And how many passwords? A good password needs variety!
As our cooperation partner checked4you reports, you actually have a lot of passwords for a lot of digital accounts.
But the more passwords you have to remember, the more confusing it becomes. And many then make exactly the mistakes that we have put together here:
Password too obvious
Names or numbers from your personal environment, such as your dog's name, your own birthday or your car license plate, are a bit too transparent - at least for people who know you, and that doesn't just mean good friends.
Use “normal” words:
Words such as B. which can be found in every dictionary are fundamentally risky. In practice, this is particularly fatal if you have any number of attempts to log in. If a machine or hacker software simply rushes through a complete dictionary, it can sometimes find what it is looking for in seconds, because it doesn't take longer for a “simple” dictionary...
Logical strings:
That might sound harsh, but “12345” or “abcde” are simply stupid – you don’t even need a machine to crack them. Exactly the same applies to well-known letter or number sequences such as 4711, 0815 or 007. Or keyboard sequences such as asdfgh (look at your keyboard and you will see what is meant!).
Password too short:
No, it shouldn't be too short either. And that has nothing to do with whether it is a word or any symbol. There is also software that not only tries out dictionaries, but also any character sequences. If you only have three-character words, you have a real chance of finding the right one. The more characters, the longer it takes a machine to crack your account. And there are eight or ten characters e.g. B. is already extremely much safer than 5 or 6 - because a decryption machine would suddenly need days instead of minutes for its attempts! But be careful: computers are getting faster and faster, which means passwords are inevitably getting longer...
Too few passwords:
If you only use one or two passwords for numerous accounts over and over again, you increase the risk. Because once one has been spied out, the bad guys have them all!
Always the same passwords:
Those who are particularly security-conscious can simply change their passwords after a while. Let's say after a year or so, e.g. B. on February 1st. Then it’s “change your password day”. In any case, it doesn’t have to stay the same “PWs” forever. But make sure that your new password is at least as strong as your old one. If in doubt, using the same password for a longer period of time for access is not a bad thing - as long as it is not spied out in any way.
Save passwords:
No, don't do that, especially not in a file on the computer, as Trojans could get to it. And don't always carry it around handwritten in a notebook. A magazine in the safe at home, perhaps. Just remembering the passwords is definitely the safest way.
So what is a secure password? Well, a string that is as long as possible and mixed, ideally with special characters included. Something like “sdf.,f84/nm32” or something like that isn’t bad. Now you can't remember something like that very well, so it's helpful to take a memory sentence and then knit a password out of it.
For example: “I read the new articles on checked4you every day!”. That would be: iljtdnabc4u! .
Then you can replace some letters with numbers or characters, e.g. E.g. an “@” instead of “a” or “3” instead of “e” (yes, there is no “e” in the example, but it generally works!). And the extreme enigmatists among you can then go and e.g. For example, we could replace the first two letters with the number of their position in the alphabet, as A=1, B=2, etc. Then our password would become “ 912jtdn@bc4u! “
So, now you just have to remember the many types of encryption that you have used... 😉
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