World Password Day 2019: Easy Steps To Create A Unique & Fully Secured Password To Beat Online Hacking

World Password Day technically falls on first Thursday in May every year. This day is intended to create awareness regarding best practices of password and need for a hackproof one. As the demand for social media increasing, we tend to create several accounts with every passing year. More than the number of accounts means more the number of passwords to secure them. The question here is how to create an entirely secure and hackproof password. Here are some easy steps for creating full secured passwords that would be difficult for hackers to crack. Do You Use '123456' or 'Qwerty' As Your Passwords? World's Most Hacked Passwords Released; Is Yours on the List?

Password Should Be Lengthy: For ensuring the security of your account, it is advised that the users should create long passwords. As the per new NIST guidelines, the users are allowed to create passwords up to 64 characters in length ensuring they are reliable and harder to crack. Creating a secure and strong password is very important, and it cannot be achieved by merely using eight characters. The users need to sit down and create a secure password by making it longer by using uppercase, lowercase letters, mix letters, numbers and punctuations. More prolonged the password, harder it is for the hacker to crack it.

Use Phrases & Avoid Personal Details: Personal Information used as passwords are very vulnerable. These details should be avoided for creating a password to ensure the security of your accounts. Moreover, the usage of alternative keys and consecutive numbers are easily crackable. In spite of creating passwords comprising of the personal details and secret code, the users should think about passphrase or altered words instead. For example, the users can compose a passphrase like 'ilikechocolatepastry' or 'iwentwashingtonlastsummer'.

Use Different Passwords For Different Accounts: With multiple accounts, it is complicated to remember passwords for every account. Though it is difficult to remember passwords for every account, the users should not create the same password for all accounts. It is highly recommended that users should create different passwords for different accounts. Safer Internet Day 2019: How To Ensure Safety For Your Online Transactions?

Change Your Passwords After 3 Months: For keeping your accounts safe, it is highly recommended that user should change the passwords after a certain period. However, the password changing process should occasionally be, rather too often. It is highly recommended to change all your passwords after a specific interval.

Don't Keep Your Password Too Easy: Easy password can be cracked effortlessly. The users should not be composing passwords for the sake of making it. Users creating passwords such as '123456', 'qwerty', 'abcdef', 'p@ssword1' are not very common but also easily crackable. Thus, it is suggested to create passwords comprising of alphanumeric and special characters. Millions Using Easy-to-Guess ‘123456’ As Password: Study.

Use Two-Factor Identification: As cyber-crimes are increasing each day, protecting your private information is possible only through secure and unique passwords. With the rising cyber crime rate, criminals have become sophisticated. The only way to answer this breach is two-factor identification. An account holder will receive a notification via messages, emails or apps every time a password is changed. The user will also receive information when his account is accessed through a new device or at a new location.

Make Password Creative With Characters: Creating a password is not essential; creating a secure one is. The users' password should be capable of withstanding 100 guesses in spite of whatever the password may be. Moreover, the passwords created should be memorable yet unique. However, they need not be cumbersome. Called as 'memorised secrets' by NIST, passwords should be created in such a way they stay in mind.

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