May 6, 2019 | posted by Conner Williams
May 2nd was World Password
Day, and now is a great time to update or strengthen your passwords.
Weak and common passwords are easy
for hackers to guess, and this opens the door to reading your email, spoofing
your information, and gaining access to your other online accounts such as
banking and credit cards.
You need long and strong passwords to
protect yourself online. We recommend that all your passwords meets these
criteria:
- Minimum
of 16 characters
- Contains
at least one uppercase letter and one number
- Uses
one or more punctuation marks such as (.), (-), (#) or (!).
- Do
not include your name or username
It's also important not to use the same password for multiple online accounts, since if that password is cracked, other passwords could be cracked as well. To help organize all those passwords, check out www.lastpass.com. LastPass is a secure and effective tool to help manage your abundance of passwords. One super-strong password protects all of your others behind the “vault” so you don’t have to remember them all. Plus, LastPass can be added as a browser extension to automatically fill in login details.
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