You want your online data to be secure, then you must choose a strong password to protect that data. Your password must be a random combination of letters and numbers so that no one can hack into your account. In this article, i will be writing some tips to create a strong password that will not be easy for any hacker to break.
- First of all, do not use phrases or words that can be from any language.
- This is really important, because if anyone finds that word in your password, he only have to find less number of characters to crack your password. If you use only word, your password will likely be cracked by any hacker if he/she wants to do so.
- You must not use your or your family information in password.
- Some users select password that contains their birth date, mobile number, name or family name etc. which makes them to easily remind their passwords, but this way of selecting is wrong. So, you should never use such passwords.
- You should not write your passwords anywhere.
- Some users write their password on some paper or on the Computer desk or in some word editor program in their computer, so that they can easily recall their password if they forgot that. This way of storing your password is really dangerous, as your friends can access those files from your computer while visiting your house or they can read written passwords as well.
- You should not use same password for everything.
- Some users use same password for every account they have either on internet or on their computer or for their bank account. But you should not follow this strategy, because, if by any means someone finds password for your one account, he/she can have access to your other accounts as well.
- So you should select different passwords for every account you have.
- Later in this Article, i will explain how you can set different password for every account you have.
- Mix letters, numbers and special symbols.
- This is one of those tips which helps to have a very strong password for your account. As an example you can have a password with 3 letters, then 2 numbers, then a special symbol, after that again 1 letter and then a number e.g(tcp20$5a).
- I know this is hard two remember such passwords but security is most important above all issues.
- Use casing for letters to make your password more strong.
- This also makes your passwords strong. It is just impossible to crack such passwords.
- You can use a long sentence to make your password which makes your password easy to remember and strong too.
- You can think of a sentence which you can easily recall.
- After that you can use that sentence to make your password. You can select first letter or last letter of every word as one character for your password.
e.g “I have two kids and their names are Cari & Selma. So your password will be ih2k&tnac&s. - These type of passwords are easy to remember and difficult to crack.
- Use long passwords for more security.
- This is obvious that if you have a long password that will be more secure as well.
- You can use some kind of encryption to have strong passwords but have to remember an easy one.
- This is tricky one. Say you want your name to be your password and suppose you name is “abcdefghij” and your cell phone number is 6678665976. Then add every corresponding number of your cell number to the corresponding character of your name. Then your password will be “ghjlkllqpp”.
- You can insert special characters or numbers in between to make this password even more secure.
- Another way to make secure passwords is by mixing two names.
- This password will not be much strong as it will contain your personal information, but it will be more secure than just using your name as your password.
- Say your name is “abc” and your mother’s name is “vwxyz” then its reverse will be “zyxwv”, then you can have a password like “azbycx2w8v” here 28 is the age difference between you and your mother.
- If you have find out a single secure password and don’t want to create different for every account because you can’t remember too many password then you can just use 9th or 10th point of this article to have multiple passwords from single one.
- Say you have find out a password “ghiw6eh&” and you want to find its alternative for Google. Then you have two string to mix up like i had done in 10th point.
- Or you can add Google to your password to have one more password for yourself.
