The first Thursday of each May is celebrated world password daya day created by cybersecurity professionals in 2013, which aims to encourage good password habits that help keep our lives safe online.
This topic is basic digitized world. With passwords, cybercriminals can hijack everything from social media accounts to bank accounts and credit cards.
A strong password is the main barrier that prevents most of your online accounts from being hacked. No up-to-date practices you could be using passwords that cyber scammers can easily guess in a matter of hoursindicates Kaspersky Lab, a computer security company.
Thus, the team of experts from S2 Grupo, a Spanish cybersecurity company, has drawn up a decalogue with tips for create good and secure passwordswhich begin by not using family data, which could be known through social networks, nor words or series of numbers.
The hackers they use automatic password cracking systems that make use of word dictionaries and generate number combinations. According to recent studies, the worst passwords are ‘123456′, ‘password’, ‘abc123′, ‘qwerty’, etc.
Internet users should choose strong passwords, with passwords that must have at least eight characters, uppercase, lowercase, numbers and keyboard symbols. The keys must be memorizable but not guessableby using words to numbers that are familiar along with other elements.
It is also recommended not to save the password in the browser, change it periodically and use different keys for each service, so as not to compromise all security if attackers access a service, he details Europe Press.
Likewise, the security company reminds us of the importance of not sharing passwords with anyone, writing them down in a safe place like at home –never on the computer, tablet or smartphone– or use applications to encrypt the keys and safeguard them.
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Also, Kaspersky Lab indicates that in general, there are two main approaches to creating strong passwords:
The passphrases they are based on a combination of several real words. Previously, rare words were used with character swapping and random characters mixed in, such as “TruC0” for “trick” or “84l0nc3s70” for “basketball”.
The hackers of algorithms now know this method, so the best passphrases are often a mix of unrelated common words in a meaningless order. Sometimes there may be a phrase that has been cut and swapped with a pattern that only the user knows.
An example of a passphrase could be «vacA!burn#move?pianoOh»» (with the words cow, burn, move Y piano).
Passphrases work because:
- They are easy to remember.
- They deceive the hackers who use the dictionary or brute force.
The random character strings they are purely random, using a mix of all character types. These passwords include uppercase, lowercase, symbols, and numbers in a spontaneous order. Since there is no method for character layout, guessing is incredibly difficult. Even hacking software can take billions of years to figure out these passwords.
An example of a random character string might be “f2m_+Vm3cV*j” (which can be remembered by using the mnemonics, fruit 2 apple + VISA music 3 coffee VISA * jack).
Random character strings work because they are:
- Almost impossible to guess.
- very difficult to to hack.
- They can be remembered by muscle memory and mnemonics. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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