Everybody knows how difficult it is to create and manage multiple passwords, especially if you’re one of those people who taking pride in creating incredibly difficult combinations of numbers, letters and symbols to protect your accounts. However, it’s incredibly important that you don’t use simple passwords, or reuse the same password across multiple platforms and services.
Don’t:
Use an easily guessable and common password
Use personal information or repeated characters in passwords
Have a single word as a password
Use the same password for multiple accounts
Give out your passwords
List your passwords in your computer or mobile phone, or in a document called ‘passwords’
Do:
Create strong passwords by using a long combination of letters, numbers and symbols
Use a password manager
Use two-factor authentication on all platfoms and services that provide it, such as Facebook, Google and banking apps
Regularly change your passwords
These are some of the most common passwords:
123456
123456789
qwerty
password
111111
abc123
password1
123123
000000
1q2w3e4r5t
dragon
homelesspa
monkey
qwertyuiop
Check if your password has been exposed by running it through Have I Been Pwned
According to PC Magazine, these are the best free password managers of 2018.
- LastPass
- LogMeOnce Password Management Suite
- Myki password Manager & Authenticator
- 1U Password Manager
- Enpass Password Manager 5
- KeePass 2.34
- oneID
- Symantec Norton Identity Safe
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