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Choose different passwords for different websites

November 3rd, 2010 1 comment

Maintaining strong passwords in online is always a challenge for everyone. Maintaining a same password for all websites is very risk. No matter how strong your password is, even if it is compromised in one website then you loose your data.

Choosing strong password is not so hard. There are many ways to choose strong password. Also you can check your strength of the password in various ways.

Mozilla come up with a video explanation on how to maintain different password for different websites in easy manner. These tips will help you protect your online data.

Have a secure surfing!

Useful webapp to test your password strength

August 30th, 2010 4 comments
How secure is my password

Brute Force attack is one of the popular hacking techniques that cracks the password using trial and error method. Do you want to know the time required to crack your password? One page webapp will give you this time required.

How secure is my password is a simple webapp that gives time to crack your password based on mathematical calculations.If your password is really strong enough it takes billion,trillion,quadrillion,etc., years.

You can safely type your password in this page as this will not transmit. This webapp will not share/store your password,

Yes. No data is stored or transferred anywhere

How to check the strength of a password? and How to check the strength of your password? are other webapps that help you to choose a strong password. I hope these webapps together will help you to secure your password.

Webapp Link : How secure is my password

How to check the strength of your password?

May 19th, 2009 No comments

Strong Passwords

Passwords are the keys to access your personal information, online banking accounts. Everyone in the online world likes to secure their passwords from hackers by creating a tough to guess passwords.

Having a strong password is always safer to protect your online accounts.

Microsoft provides you an easy way to check the strength of your passwords.

Visit Microsoft Password Checker and type your password to check its strength. It is one of the easy and secure way to check your passwords online.

Here is a note from Microsoft Password Checker page.

The security of the passwords entered into Password Checker is similar to the security of the password you enter when you log into Windows. The password is checked and validated on your computer, but is not sent over the Internet.

Link : Microsoft Password Checker

How to check the strength of a password?

February 16th, 2009 1 comment

Very Strong Password

Passwords are the key for your online bank accounts and popular websites. Mostly peoples use their favourite words as password which is not advisable. This would make the hackers job very easy to steal your password.

So creating a strong password is mandatory for everyone to protect their online accounts from hackers. Your password should have at least one Numeric character and at least one Capital letter and at least one special character.

Once you create a password you can test the strength of the password with a simple online tool called “The Password Meter”.

…This application is designed to assess the strength of password strings. The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, with a hard focus on breaking the typical bad habits of faulty password formulation…

Here I am creating a password from the following sentence.

Vijay Went to Delhi at the age of  20 and Joined in Army in 1999

vwD@20jA99

You can check the strength of this password here. The one I created here is of health 100%.

Go ahead and check your password strength here and change it if it is weak.

Link : The Password Meter