Points To Remember While Choosing Your Password
With accounts getting hacked every second day, it is not only essential to choose a strong password but what is equally important is remembering it. We give you a list of some Dos and Don’ts while choosing your internet password:
- Use a mix of upper case and lower case alphabets along with numerical and special characters.
- Keep your password long enough to be difficult and short enough to remember. Anywhere between 8 and 15 characters should keep you safe
- Try having a different password for each site
- Keep a track of when you set a password and try changing it at least once a month.
- Try keeping your password as random as possible. For Eg: rHjlmn88)* makes a much better password than Random123!@
- Do Not write your password anywhere or create anagrams/pins for your passwords
- Do Not Have personal details like you name, family name or birth details as your password.
- Avoid common passwords that are easy to remember but low on the security quotient. Eg: password, mysecretcode, allow, entry, etc
- Another mistake people make while choosing passwords is writing names backwards. This is almost too easy to guess and break. Eg: If your name is Alexander, avoid
a password like rednaxela. Alternatively, also avoid passwords removing the vowels. Eg: lxndr for Alexander.
- Don’t add a single number or digit before your password. Eg: Alexander1 or Alexander). Also avoid repeating a word. Eg: AlexanderAlexander