How to Create a Secure Password

A study conducted at Georgia Tech Research Institute in the United States many people use passwords or keywords weak to protect their accounts.

Internet users who have bank accounts, credit cards, or those who store personal information in online accounts mostly weak mengguanakan keywords so that hackers can find out the password. The hackers usually use a Graphics cards and then combined with the software or program to crack passwords and repeatedly try combinations of different passwords until the correct password is found.

According to the study, Internet users often create passwords that contain their personal information, such as date of birth, hometown, names of parents, name of boyfriend and so forth.
Jamie Cowper from Symantec provides advice to the instigators of the Internet use different passwords for different accounts they have. "And do not forget to change their passwords periodically,"

In addition, users are also advised to make a keyword which consists of 12 characters that are not easily known. "Creating a risky short passwords to be cracked," which referred to the short keywords Cowper is a password that consists of seven characters or less.

Cowper who worked at a company that produces Internet security software like Norton Anti-Virus, it also advises users to create combinations of character password consisting of numbers and letters, including large or small.

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