by Cobor

Created on: April 18, 2008

An issue which comes up a lot in recent months is phishing: a business fraud that exploits the study of individual behavior of a person in order to steal information. This activity is an strikes because many people. But apart from the phishing is a remarkable wave of identity theft and violations of corporate security. Despite all of this is surprising how few people create their own passwords without adopting safety criteria because most computer users, both at home and at work, see passwords as a nuisance and therefore try to make them very easy to remember. This is u big mistake that over time can become a disaster.

There never tire recall that the password must be selected so as to be safe and unassailable. It is not difficult.
There are some specific guidelines that must be followed to choose a secure password. Use the following suggestions will help you a lot and there will leave in the hands of those who want to steal your valuable data for fraud.

1. The password must be 6-8 characters in length. The longer your password is more difficult for a program to discover hacking. Follow this reasoning: If the password is abc there are 6 possible combinations of passwords. If the password is abc123 there are now more than 720 possible combinations of passwords. If the password is abc1234, now there are nearly 6000 possible combinations. It is more forward so long password combination many more there are.

2. Never use a password composed only of brief letters. Passwords should be alphanumeric. Which simply means a combination of numbers and letters, as jf87yWq5. Why? When a hacker tries to force a system, using so-called dictionary or brute force hacks. A dictionary hack is simply an application that uses a standard of words and combinations of words, in trying to guess the password. For example, many computer users use the word "password" as their actual password. A dictionary hack find this password in a matter of minutes. Using an alphanumeric password increases the number of possible combinations of passwords grows up to a few million.

3. Never use personal information to create your password. Many people often use their home address, their age, the name of her husband oe wife, their social security number or their date of birth. This data is incredibly easy to obtain for a hacker system. The password must be secure and hard to guess and personal data not meet these criteria.

4. Do not write your password everywhere. Keep a record with your password is dangerous as keep a copy of your ATM pin number in your wallet next to your ATM card. Creating easy to remember. This is not as difficult as it seems: if you use a piece of paper to jot down your ideas sooner or later something will come out good and you will then have your secure password. Of course you have to burn the piece of paper no just finished.

5. Do not use the same password for more than 90 days. Creating different variants of the same password and recycled every 60 - 90 days. This adds another level of security for your data. Recycling your password frequently, do you become your data safe to 1000%. This is what they do most large companies requiring their employees to change their passwords every month.

My hope is that these suggestions will help you to choose a secure password and hard to guess but I feel sure that you will enjoy trying to create your own impregnable and password.

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