Your password is your metaphorical ‘key’ to unlocking your online ‘front door’. You wouldn’t hand your home key to just anyone, would you? Cybersecurity experts continually recommend to use of strong, unique passwords for several reasons, Cyber-criminals compromise websites and online accounts, and post lists of usernames, email addresses, and passwords online. A criminal can look for other online shopping, social media, or financial accounts for that same person. When the criminal finds those accounts they can try logging in with the exposed password. If the password is reused, they can gain access to further accounts. This is why unique passwords are so important. The use of strong passwords can slow or often defeat the various attack methods of compromising a terminal’s security. Passwords are the first line of defense against unwanted access to your accounts. The stronger the password, the better protected the accounts.
Your enemy isn’t some guy in a ski mask trying to guess your password one try at a time. It’s a program that automatically runs through massive databases of common passwords or random combinations of characters. Hackers use a technique called brute forcing. This is a technique where they try every possible character combination until the correct password is identified. The stronger the password the less likely brute forcing will be successful. To Create a Strong Password; Choose a password that no one will easily guess, Do not share passwords, Make sure your password is long, Use at least one letter, number, and special character in your password, Remember to update and vary passwords.
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How to use Password Generator.
Sordum has developed free and portable software (Sordum Random Password Generator) to create random secure passwords. Download, Unzip it, and run the “RandomPW.exe” file
If you do not want to use the downloaded software you can use their online version of the Password generator.
Supported operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
