5 mistakes you can make when choosing a password

Did you get a target for fraud? I hear more and more stories of people whose accounts were hacked. They stole money, lost sleep, spent hours setting up new accounts or had their credit ruined. Do not let this happen to you.

Get these dangerous mistakes?

Mistake # 1: Do not use the same password for all your accounts.

Please do not do this. Use different passwords for each e-mail account, and certainly use unique passwords for shopping sites where you want to enter your credit card.

Mistake # 2: short passwords

The risk that someone forgets increasingly difficult to guess, contains more characters. So go and make your enthusiasm words long pass.

Mistake # 3: Brad Pitt, Charlie, Princess Sarah, Barbie, Gandalf - I believe it yet?

Do not use the children's names, name, surname, company name characters in books or movies or celebrity names. Although I do not think it was on my list, someone you know.


Mistake # 4: English words easy to remember

Easy to remember is also easy to guess. Passwords must not contain English words from a dictionary. Non-English words or words in dictionaries are also at high risk. And for God's sake, if your password is "password" or "test", it is amazing that you hacked!

Mistake # 5: Figures are no-no.

Seriously, stay away from birthdays, anniversaries, addresses, social security numbers, telephone numbers. You are just too easy to guess.

Choose random passwords for banking sites like PayPal. Combine letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.

If all this seems to remember, difficult to examine with a program password. Most good programs password will not only store your passwords on your computer, but they will generate completely random passwords when you need them.

Here are some to try here.

http://www.fgroupsoft.com/Traysafe/
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
http://www.treepad.com/treepadsafe/

There is never a good time to discover that someone steals money from you - from your own e-mail account or blocked. It is a waste of time and money. Please protect.