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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
By silki garg
 Your passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you've stored on your computer and in your online accounts.
Do I need to highlight their importance?
If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions. In many cases you would not notice these attacks until it is too late.
Why are strong passwords needed?
Passwords can be the weakest link in a computer security scheme. Strong passwords are important because password cracking tools continue to improve and the computers used to crack passwords are more powerful. Passwords that once took weeks to break can now be broken in hours or sometime minutes.
Password cracking software use one of three approaches:
Intelligent guessing, Dictionary attacks and automation that tries every possible combination of characters. Given enough time, the automated method can crack any, yes I mean ANY, password.
What makes a Strong Password:
The general rule for making a strong password is |
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