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Who wants your passwords?
The obvious answer is criminals, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Only certain kinds of criminals even know what to do with a stolen password. A common thief who fences stolen goods wouldn’t have the faintest idea what to do if they suddenly found your Gmail password scribbled down on a piece of paper on the living-room table. Hopefully, you’re smarter than to leave it out in the first place. There are however three commonplace ways that passwords get exposed including:
Password Managers Take Away the Fear
When you employ Dashlane or a similar password manager, you get the power of security and a powerful random password generator to secure all your accounts. The password manager will create a tough-to-crack password for each of your accounts and assist you with a master password that unlocks the vault to all the others. The master password is the only one you will have to remember to access all of your accounts moving forward. Learn: Recover/Reset Lost Windows 10, 8 and 7 Password!
How to Make a Good Password
Good passwords have to be unique and stay away from traditional word patterns, such as combining the college you went with the year you graduated “Michigan1994”. Use lots of keyboard symbols along with numbers and scatter your capital and lowercase letters. Thus “Michigan1994” becomes !!!Mich9$ig@n” and you don’t have to worry much about anyone cracking into your bank account anytime soon. This is a guest contributor post.
