Words You Should Never Use As Your Passwords

Passwords, the words that are believed to add safety to the many tasks we do, are vulnerable to insecurities too. A new study has revealed that passwords aren’t too secured. Whenever a hacker tries to hack an account, they always try passwords, which you think are rather difficult to guess. It’s not due to the common passwords that users share, but the similar habits, which make it easier for hackers to crack passwords and enter systems, which are otherwise considered too secured. So, let us see what are the most common habits we follow, when choosing a password for our email account, banking login and when accessing other such websites.

1. Pet names are a very common word, most of us use, as these are easy to remember.
2. Important dates of our life are another popular password choice, which entails birthdays, anniversaries and other such dates.
3. The name of your child, or some other family members’ name and also your nick name are choices that appear very popular.
4. A favorite place or the birth place of you can also be a common choice for passwords.
5. In fact, the word ‘password’ itself is used by many as their password.

From the above mentioned list, except password no word is actually a password. We often believe these words are difficult to track, but when entering your account these are the information hackers most commonly insert. All this information can be easily acquired from your social networking accounts, obviously your child’s name, pet’s name, birthday, anniversary, birth place, holiday spot are all mentioned there, so even if you think its private; the information is already public.

Using all this information is not always wrong and guessable, but the incidences are surely high. The other things that can lead to password thefts are our habits. The habit of sharing our passwords with our friends, colleagues and other people is often an easy way of inviting that uninvited trouble of account hacking. Additionally, many people have the habit of writing down the password on a sticky note and pasting it close to the workstation, it’s specially seen among people who have the habit of not memorizing things a lot. Instead of writing it on a sticky note, it’s advised to write it in your cell phone or a more secured place to avoid your password going publicly known.

What should be used then?

This is the most obvious question that might have popped in your mind after reading the above text. The answer is use a strong password, which is a combination of numbers, letters, but not a name followed by an important date of your life. Using passwords that are not related to you or your family is adapting a safer approach.

Always bear in mind, a secured password is the key to online security and you should always encourage people you know to ensure threats and thefts get minimized.

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