Each of us, of course, wants to protect his personal data from intruders, but we often make a simple but very big mistake – we simply ignore the simplest security rules. For example, we usually don’t even think about the possible consequences of coming up with fairly simple and unreliable passwords for our accounts. And if you consider that many of us use passwords like “Lesha220890”, then hacking mail or locking an iPhone by restoring access to it through iCloud will not be difficult even for a novice cybercriminal. Also, by hacking your page in a social network and gaining access to your personal data, a cybercriminal can begin to blackmail you, and if he manages to find, for example, photos of personal documents or a bank card in your correspondence, then by using this data In a chat with a bank, it is very likely that you can also access your bank account. Today in the article we will try to figure out how to protect ourselves from such troubles. And this will help us with some tips from white hackers.
First of all, you should protect all your accounts as much as possible with strong passwords. However, many do not know the difference between a strong password and a simple one, which is quite easy for even a novice cybercriminal to crack. Usually, to find a password, we do not “puzzle” our heads, but simply use numbers that are understandable to us (for example, a phone number, our own car number, apartment number), dates (birthdays, wedding day, date of moving to a new city, date of end of studies), etc. Some people like to use the names of countries, regions, their own email address, as well as popular words like password or qwerty. All this suggests that the user is not particularly worried, or rather, simply does not think about the fact that one day he will simply be hacked. In the event of a hack, it is very likely that not only his personal data will be stolen, but also all the money that the user carefully guards, as he believes, using a strong password.
If we are talking about really strong and complex passwords, then, as a rule, they always use a set of numbers in random order, as well as uppercase letters and, of course, special characters (for example, YgIh ^ 3 £ i4% rJqyBo80) . The most important thing is that all this is not associated with you or some important event in your life.
In order to create such a password and at the same time not to “puzzle” your head very much, you can use a separate program, which many people know as a password manager. This program is specifically designed to allow the user to securely store previously automatically generated passwords for their accounts in an encrypted vault. In addition, the user does not need to enter a password for the program each time, since it has automatic filling of credentials for each of the user accounts used on the Internet. The program is quite convenient and simple, moreover, it solves the problem of remembering, the only thing the user needs is not to forget the password of the program itself. Despite the fact that using this program is quite simple and convenient, however, not all users agree to use it to store their passwords, and some simply do not know about its existence.
If you are one of them, here are some tips for you on how to create a strong password that is easy to remember.
Tip #1
The easiest and most reliable way is to take some memorable phrase, for example, an excerpt from the sentence of your favorite song, which you will remember well and definitely will not forget. This passage can be used to create your own complex password, which will be very, very difficult to crack.
For example, you can take the words from the song “Tatu” Yegor Nats:
“To smile again, you need a combination of the right notes”
Using this sentence, we get a set of Chounkpn letters. We then use a free text transliteration service to translate Russian letters to Latin letters and get Chounkpn. For greater confidence in the security of the new password, you should add special characters, for example, an asterisk
, hash sign (#), dollar sign ($), and after each letter you can add numbers of your choice. As a result, we will get a quite complex and easy to remember password #С0h1u2n3k4p5n*.
Tip #2
This is a very simple and at the same time interesting tip that works very well in practice. To create a strong password, you just need to take the name of the site or service for which you need this password and write it backwards. Everything is very simple. For example, if you need a strong password for YouTube, by changing the name we get ebuTuoY. After each letter you need to insert numbers, this may be your date of birth. If you were born on May 1, 1989, your password will be e1b3u1T9u8o9Y. To make the password as complicated as possible, you can add special characters: an asterisk
, hash (#) and others. It all depends on your imagination and memory. As a result, we get the password #e1b3u1T9u8o9Y*.
These two simple tips are good enough and more importantly they work as you can easily remember your complex passwords without having to copy them from a saved folder or password manager.
It is worth adding that it is not enough to create a strong password; You also need to understand where to store it so a cybercriminal doesn’t get to your carefully password-protected dad on her desktop. It is believed that the most reliable place to store strong passwords is her mind after all. Since there is certainly no access for various cyber criminals. However, if you decide to write your secure password, for example, in the notes of your smartphone, you must understand that this is an unreliable method and that there is a high probability that your notes can be easily read if necessary. Therefore, it is not recommended to store passwords in this way.
If you find it difficult to remember your new password, it is recommended to enter it manually at first. If you do this constantly, then after a few dozen attempts it will develop a mechanical memory, so the password will be entered reflexively. But, if you need to remember multiple passwords at once, you should use a password manager for this. This is a very reliable program and it is not difficult to use it at all.
You must understand that these two methods do not guarantee 100% that your password will not be cracked. However, for cyber criminals who use the usual methods to guess a password, they will definitely not be able to crack said password. Since cybercriminals often download a file from a hacker forum and use the John the Ripper program to crack a password. The downloaded file usually contains a list of the most common words for password selection; it can be some popular phrases, quotes, the name of your favorite sports teams, a popular sequence of numbers, etc. Therefore, you should definitely forget about a password like 10011001. Another tip: the password length should be at least 10 characters. Because the more characters your password has, the longer it will take to crack it. That is all. Thank you all for your attention.
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