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Passwords that are easy to hack -- and should be avoided

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Think of your password like this: It's a steel-enforced, barred door with triple deadbolt locks that prevents the bad guys from getting into your online accounts. But that's only true if you have a strong password of eight to 10 characters that includes letters, numbers and special characters, such as an asterisk. If your password appears in this list, change it. • password • 123456 • 12345678 • 1234 • qwerty • 12345 • baseball • football • letmein • monkey • 696969 • abc123 • mustang • michael • shadow • master • jennifer • 111111 • 2000 • jordan • superman • harley If you're stumped on how to create a secure password that you will also remember, try this trick: Turn a sentence into a password. Secure password example: "Now I lay me down to sleep" would become nilmDOWN2s, a 10-character password that won't be found in any dictionary.

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