Some Ideas To Help You Create Longer And More Secure Passwords on your Web Hosting Account

Security is becoming an increasingly critical factor on the World Wide Web every day. Reports on the news elsewhere of hackers gaining entry into all sorts of password protected accounts and gaining access to sensitive personal information which is then used for fraud are on the increase.

What with keyword loggers and other increasingly clever methods crooks are coming up with all the time to steal people's passwords. This includes phishing schemes that look so authentic that virtually anybody would fall for them on a hectic day. Only that it is important for you to stick to the simple rule of not logging into any account of yours through a link supplied in your email inbox.

What all this means is that the longer and therefore more secure your web hosting password is, the better, because you never know what the next scheme will be.

We all know that passwords that include characters as well as both numbers and letters are much more secure. The only problem is that most folks would prefer to create a password that they can remember. So how does one manage to do this while observing this rule and making their passwords longer.

The best way of doing this is to create passwords that are actually statements. For example of your wedding anniversary is on Feb 28th (never use birthdays because somebody can easily get this information about you) the you password can be something like @thebestdayofmylife28feb1997. This is another way of saying at the best day of my life Feb 28 1997 which may not be grammatically correct but makes a great password that is easy to commit to memory and is at the same time fairly secure.

Using this simple technique you can make most of your accounts fairly secure and at the same time be able to remember them without having to write them everywhere, which in itself will make any password less secure.

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