We should be using more secure passwords — and changing them more often | Opinion
Don't use personal information in your passwords.Where I work, we are required to change our passwords once a year. This is an important password that we use to log into our PCs and unlock just about everything we do on our network, like check email or log in to see our pay stubs or sign up for benefits.
Don’t use words you find in the dictionary. There are password-guessing apps that can try millions of combinations of words in the dictionary. It’s good to purposefully misspell words in your password. Use a zero instead of the letter “O,” or drop the vowels out of a word.Use a simple phrase that is something you can remember, then change it just enough to make it harder to guess. Remember, longer passwords are much harder to crack. I’d say eight characters are the minimum.
This example contains five words but no straight-out dictionary words. A password-cracking program would take centuries to guess it.bitwarden.com/password-strength
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