Password Threats
Last Updated on:
Apr 08, 2010 12:50 PM
Password is a key, which is used to protect your information from bad people in the cyber world. Your user ID is your identification and password proves your User ID
Keeping an strong password is not only sufficient as if your answers in the secret question section of your online profile are easy to find, a bad guy/ hacker may be able to convince the web mail service password- recovery mechanism to handover the password to attacker/hacker
In social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, linkedIn each of which is studded with answers to commonly used security questions such as favorite place, school, college etc
Tips for Strong Passwords

A strong Password should have combinations of Alphabets, Numbers and Characters such as c.!@*^&)(~@. Remembering these passwords are very difficult so that remember a passphrase and make a strong password as below.
Consider the following passphrase
" I love my sister for her continous support "
Take all first letters of all words in the above statement
Ilmsfhcs
Replace all even numbers letters as capital letters
iLmSfHcS
Now replace S with $ and H with #
iLm$f#c$
finally add your favorite two digit number at the end
iLm$f#c$36 is the strong password which is also can be remember.
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