2012
06.25

How to avoid bad passwords

An article from BizTech by Ricky Ribeiro

Recently LinkedIn was hacked, compromising many user accounts and passwords.  This has brought up the importance of creating a unique password.  According to MSNBC.com the number 1 password for the LinkedIn accounts was link, appearing 941 times from a sampling of hacked accounts.  Following behind link was: 1234, work and god.

Bob Sullivan of MSNBC also suggests that you think of a sentence that you can remember, and take the first letter of every word in the sentence as your password. For example: My daughter Julie was born on November 1 would yield a password of “MdJwboN1.”

Changing your password regularly is also a good idea.

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