How Strong Are Your Passwords?
We all have passwords - for personal & work emails. And some choose a word they can remember and others may get more cautious about which passwords they chosse.
Do you know how strong your current passwords are? Have you ever faced a password crack?
A recent research done by the Georgia Institute of Technology used very basic technology to try to crack people’s passwords. The researchers found that they could easily crack a cluster of eight character passwords within 2 hours. When they increased the characters to twelve, they calculated that it would take 17,134 years to crack all the passwords in a cluster.
Read the new blog post on Digital Qatar & tell us about your experiences with passwords!
http://www.digitalqatar.net/2010/08/24/how-strong-is-your-password/
Salam Guys... Make your password long with combination of letters, numbers and special character... this would be a good sample of a STRONG password.... just like this --> P@$$w0rd123
i learned this from Microsoft... they say its a best practice in creating password...
-DJ BASH (MCP-MCSE)
lol saeedji...I am not that FOOL to keep so simple passwords...I have my yahoo account before i got married with my husband..My baby came much after that..lol
And yes, it doesn't mean that the name that i have in YAHOO is my real name...:)..heheheheee
lol saeed..ok....good that you are succeed in cracking my password..
oh soniya... now dont inspire/tempt us to find out ur very simple password..... common change it very difficuilt one.... with letters n numbers mixed up
brady, i hope it's not ME.....hehehee
OMG!! my passwords are really very simple to crack out by anyone...:((
your password should not be related in you..a combination of letters and numbers..
Any help for people who keeps forgetting their passwords?
How strong can you make the password. What guarantee is that you will remember it?
combination of characters and numbers....will b safe na??
Thanks all for your great comments. Looking forward to hear from more users how they think passwords can be best created and whether they have experienced password cracks before.
PpAaSsWwOoRrDd123456
XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDDXDXDDXDDXDXDXDXD
i am pretty sure tat its hard to get my password though it is very easy one........
use a password with names of ur GF and wife with ur name and age between, never can be cracked
try also to avoid using birth date only.
that's refreshing cLeaNshAved2010 LOL
bloody perverts STOP IT :)
yaKKaSaaNg :-))
inspirational clot, since i already gave my password away think I'll change it now to dEepsWalLow69
lol
Mine used to be yOuchEwmIne :-P
since we are sharing passwords mine is cLeaNshAved2010 :P
Wrong, my new password was bAlddyke2010... ;-))
colt i just cracked your password above :P
Always use at least one upper case letter combined with numbers for max security :) for example: bAldhOmo2010
Good for me, I just changed my password to ************ ;-)
numbers cant be called a password...
The world's most common passwords are "password" and "123456"