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Is your secret password your life partner’s name, baby name or pet’s name? Or a mixture of these?

Do you apply the similar password for several websites, for example your e-mail, any social networking websites, online shopping transactions, login at your workplace etc.?
If you do, you are not very dissimilar from several others. Even though websites advise us to select passwords that have a combination of letters and numbers, and are not easy to figure out, but most of us still decide a password that are easy to remember. It is not possible to remember various, difficult passwords.

Most websites will recommend you to apply a combination of alphabets, numbers, special signs, etc. to make passwords stronger. But these would still be hard to keep in mind and you are likely to write it down somewhere, which could also be unsafe.

According to information provided by safety solutions provider Trend Micro, about 37 per cent of persons who fall victim to site hackers are non-tech savvy net users who make use of easy passwords. Such simple passwords make the job of site hackers more easier and faster.

Apply this format of passwords

Make a phrase that’s easy to remember and use the initials of every word in the phrase. Hence, you could have IgfSXCi1997 for “I graduated from St. Xavier College in 1997” or Mhlf15yiUS for “My husband lived for 15 years in United States”.

Usually, the longer the password, the stronger it is. And never pick a word from the dictionary for your password. It’s easy for site hackers to run a program that repetitively try to log in to your account using words from the dictionary. At some point, they will crack it.