I can’t emphasize how important it is to be vigil with your password of all your online logins. Please vary it with a strong password. I recommend this password generator for Firefox user.
Some of my friends are so lax about it, they will come back running to me, if their blog got hacked or got locked out of their Hotmail.
Did you know that some of the most used password by most people are so easily to crack! Well here’s the list I’ve found out
If your password is any of the below, please bury your head into the sand and wait for the hackers to come and wreak havoc soon enough
1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. blink182
10. (your first name)
one of my password in my office documents is
password6…
wahhahahha..
i cant be bothered…
every month, the system requires us to change password…
so password1, then password2,
seems easy to rmb!!!! :D
pemalas punya nak ingat … maybe next time just set ur handphone as password perhaps?
@eddyboi
Rather than burying your head into the sand and waiting for the hackers to come you could actually be proactive ;)
I’d start with changing password1, password2 etc to strong passwords. I know, I know… good strong passwords are hard to remember, especially if you have 30 of them.
I’m a co-founder at PassPack (that’s an online password manager) and these are the steps I usualy suggest taking:
1. Choose a good password manager. Make a nice strong pass to access this.
2. Fill it up with your current passwords. I’ve written instructions on how to do this in PassPack here.
3. Take some time change all of your “reused” passwords into strong ones. These don’t have to be easily remembered since you can look them up. Your password manager should have some sort of generator incorporated (PassPack does) that makes this faster.
Then you’re all set. When you need to log into a site, just go to your password manager and look it up.
Whenever you sign up for a new site at that point, use the generator in your password manager to make a strong, random and unique password. Then save it all up.
With tabbed browsing this is particularly easy. Personally, I keep my PassPack account “always open” in a tab and just switch back to it when I need it.
Despite the name “password manager” you can also use it to store all sort of things, not just logins. Think: confirmation numbers, registration numbers, software keys, emergency support phone numbers, frequent flyer miles, codes, notes, pins, snippets or even just some links that you’d like to keep private. Think of it as a private vault, or a secure organizer.
Cheers,
Tara
https://www.passpack.com
(press the big red button to sign up and get started)
what about Username : username?
haha, yar ah!
good one
I got tons of complains in my line by users who said that its ridiculous to keep having to remember and change password every 90 or 180 days and demand that they keep their computer password on a permanent setting.
Despite the rule set by their own IT Security Department, they still say that our service sucks and IT sucks and they can survive manually using pen and paper.
IT idiots at its best :-)
90 to 180 days ain’t that bad per
i think they’re jus not happy with their job, so they’re ‘blaming’ it on the password issue for no good reason
u’ve to be vigil with password … nothing is secure. someone is always trying to get ‘into the backdoor’
well any security breach u might find here, do tell me ok .. since u’re the IT expert
:-)
like i said…
my password for my office related stuffs will be password1, then password2.. etc etc…
i have like
10 passwords related documents at work…
cant be bothered with so many passwords…
waahahahhahahah…
IT personnel worst nightmare … :-p
If you are going to use multiple strong and complex passwords you can’t remember all of them and you definitely need a password manager.
Clipperz is an online password manager that can do much more than simply storing your passwords.
- ubiquitous access
- direct login to online services
- offline version
- bookmarklet for quick data entering
- …
It’s free and completely anonymous.
Clipperz lets you submit confidential information into your browser, but your data are locally encrypted by the browser itself before being uploaded.
The key for the encryption process is a passphrase known only to you.
Clipperz simply hosts your sensitive data in encrypted form and could never actually access the data in its plain form.
For any further information refer to our website: http://www.clipperz.com.
Marco
Clipperz co-founder
Thanks for the tip Marco
I’m downloading it as of now!
cheers