Forget numbers, special characters, uppercase/lowercase letters.
Instead of creating special passwords that are so complicated that you don't even remember them, it's new to use sentences.
The principle that we base password security on is about 15 years old and is useless.
They are created by Bill of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Unite
d States. He himself has dissociated himself from his old Rek
ommenationer. He wrote 2003 an 8 pages long guide on how to create secure passwords, from there it will use as many special characters as possibl
e. It was based on a policy paper from the 1980 century.
It has later been found that passwords like MITTSVÅRALÖSENORD are harder to crack than 50 &! _ #
234. It is therefore säkare and easier to use sentences.
Why?
According to Bill Burr and Cybersäkerhetsexperten Jani Kirmanen, the length of the password is important.
If you have a password of under 10 characters, it has no difference how many special characters you have used, according to Kirmanen.
Various services
Another thing that is incredibly important is to have different passwords for different services, eg a password for the job emails, one for Face
book etc. Many services are often registered with their e-mail and passw
ord. If you use the same password on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and someone hacks your Instagram, they will also be able to access your Facebook and Twitter.
One suggestion is to create a sentence password that is relevant to you and to that service.
eg nice cat videos for YouTube.
Changing the password is often not so important, the key is to have a secure password. A
nd many times, people don't care about changing passwords when services are hacked.
Then I also think that you should not use things that are easy to find out about you, eg your Social Security number, address, child or respectives name, etc.
How do I know if I'm hacked?
There is a site, https://haveibeenpwned.com/that keeps track of emails on the dark web. If
you're there, there's a chance you've been hacked. Have no
t changed your password for a while, I strongly recommend you to change your password
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