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Your Password 8L0W5. Tighten up!
Written by Mark Strozier   

Lock imageIn this month's Inc. Magazine there was an interesting article concerning the use of passwords and password security. Up until recently I've been blindly using a couple of passwords for numerous sites and not thinking much about online security. I would use simple terms that I could remember, and the terms usually either related to bodily functions that I find funny or a combo of self-depricating insults that I thought would be too embarrasing to share, therefore I would keep them securely to myself. Then I read this paragraph and was taken back by the tools now available for someone who wants to get into your online account...

"Many people use very simple passwords: Two of the most commonly used are password and password1. Others tend to choose easy-to-remember words or dates. These weak passwords are no match for a dictionary attack, say security experts. Automated password-cracking tools can check more than a million password variations in 28 hours. Passwords composed of random strings of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation, such as J<m$b7ua!43, can usually withstand an attack, but those are tough to remember."

"So based on that little bit of information my cat's name seemed less than secure than it did before I read the article. Now I've tightened up my passwords on most of my accounts, instead of using a simple 'geraldo' [my pet's name] I'm using 'GeraldoCat_CanBeatTheCrapOutOfYourCatAnyDayAnyTime". Needless to say I think that string of characters is particulary safe.

Follow this link for for the full story:
Are Your Passwords Too Weak?

FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm not a cat person. I've never owned any animal named 'Geraldo'. That would just be plain weird.

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