Time to change password?

Date: 23 Jan 2010 Comments: 0


Every now and then we hear that people forgot password or someone stole their password. This is difficult to believe until it happens with us also.

First let us look at why people forget password, most common cause is either the password was too difficult to remember or you have not used it for long time or you have to remember too many passwords.

Simple solution to this is that you can select your favorite word as password with some simple changes.
Lets assume that your favorite actress is Jean Simmons so your password can be:

siM4jeaN9$

, most important is that the password should have:

  • both small and CAP alphabets (MN)
    one or two numbers (49)
    and one or tow special characters ($)
  • Secondly password is stolen. We have the habit of writing important information in a diary or a piece of paper. This is good habit if the diary or a piece of paper is not lost. So best way is that it should be kept in most secured place alternatively learn to make a simple and memorable password like above.

    Sometimes other people can guess your password because your password was too simple to guess. Most common and simple passwords can be:

    1. 12345

    2. 123456

    3. 1234567

    4. 12345678

    5. 123456789

    6. abc123

    7. abcd1234

    8. iloveyou

    9. password

    10. (your own Date of Birth)

    Above are very easy to guess password by hackers. Hackers generally try to guess user account password and free change it. So if you are using one of the above passwords then its time to change password now and create a secured and safe password.

    Do you still have questions related to safety of passwords? Please feel free to ask here.

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