Secure passwords: Beware hackers on loose

Most of the people always use personal information as their passwords, and if someone has got hold of your PC or a laptop it will be very easy to guess the password, most of them give their own name, date of birth, their pets name, and other simple things of which they can easily remember as most of them fear forgetting their paswords, so than going for plain personal information as passwords mix them with different characters, use some uppercase letters along with lowercase letters, numbers and even special characters such as '&' or '%'. I think this will help a lot in securing passwords.....remember different strings and combinations really helps, stay safe online.....

If I make my password more complex, I tend to forget it. All different P.W.s for all different sites - how far possible ?

May there be some technolog which may use my Photograph as a Pass-word ?

Whether we share an office or not passwords need to be original and kept secret. Often, when website owners think of the term "PCI Compliant" they think of security scanning that checks for vulnerabilities hackers use to compromise sites. What some of us don't realize is that having effective passwords is also part of being PCI Compliant.

A few months ago I wrote an article on passwords that should be beneficial in our conversation - I have included it.

Website security is more important now than ever! Keeping secure passwords is a small part of our responsibility as website owners.

Now a days sites have this facility or functionality to check the strength of password.

Means if u just use alphabets they point it out that the password is weak,

or if u input alphabets+numbers as password they will notify it as a medium.

So i think every site should have these functionality to notify the user the strength of there password.

This will help users to make more complex passwords making it difficult for the hackers to hack it merely by using common words.

ver simple just connect pc to your mobile.. now a days many software are available....

We should use complex passwords.....like to die for family.......actual password....2die4family

or boildeggs.......actual password b0ildEgg5.

And also if possible use TPM...Thumb impression as a secondary security.......or use both complex password and thumb impression as a password......

For desktops use external thumb biometric scanner. The benefit for using this scanner for desktops is you can carry that thumb scanner with you at home after office hours....so if somebody try to hack, no body will get success in this type of attempt.

Cheers.....

If we create our passwords with computer generated fingerprints then it is double secure and save it to our smart card. As the smart card have the potential to store the data and we will retrive it whenever we need.

So another field must b added along with username, password. and that is fingerprint. the fingerprint might be Biometric. or any computer's component fingerprint.

The idea of passwords is more than 30 years old. This means, that is the amount of background knowledge available for analyzing passwords - to make and break them. With computing power being available by the Moore's Law, it is now high time passwords are done away with and a replacements are used. Alternatives, such as RSA, etc might be more suitable than the old hat passwords that is easy to forget and easy to crack as these are limited by human memory.

We must get into the action of changing passwords frequently. We should be aware of those passwords that can be easily guessed. Neverthless go for passwords related to your social, professional and personel environment. Generally choose a password that highly distinct from you. That's it.

this is done by group policy settings in a domain in  business operations. may appear a little complex, though not difficult  in home or consumer operations

for the hackers it is quite possible to break every kind of password using some coding technique they just don't break the password by guessing it. so the password should be such so that it belongs to a particular indivisual like thumb impression etc.... and the main reason of password hacking could be sometimes people click on the link such us "remember me on this computer" on a shared computer....so that should be taken into account...    

in biometric its scan the user retina or finger prints that more secure than other password..

I know that its difficult to remember more than 4 passwords for a human being.So use passwords managing tool,don't save it on internet.Its encrypts the data in your drive and you need to remember only one password to get all your other passwords and always update your operating system with new patches and use a good anti virus software.You will be 90% safe.

Dont ever make passwords with dictionary words,place name,surname,family name,car number,birtday,sons name,daughters name etc.

Make it lengthy and strong by adding different character types.

Always change passwords like a tooth brush.

By using longer sentence which is related our most memorable things like " i got my new bike on my 18th birthday "