Creating Strong & Unhackable Passwords - Beginner's Guide

Passwords are the key to your online accounts. So as similar to the key of your home, you should keep them as strong as possible, so that no one could break them and get access to your online accounts.

The key to a secure online account is a strong and unique password, and each online accounts of yours should have a different unique password. It seems very scary, Right? 

Today, in this article, I am going to help you out to create a very strong password for each of your online accounts with ease. So do read this article completely to secure your online accounts.

Strong Password

A strong password cannot be hacked easily,  also a strong password cannot be guessed easily by those who know you personally, or knows your personal information.

The key elements of strong and unhackable passwords are length (longer the passwords, less probability of hacking), a mix of types of letters (a good mix of numerical, small, capital, and special characters), no use of any personal information, and no dictionary words.

By applying all these key elements you can create a good strong password for your online account. But a password created using all these key elements might be tough for you to remember. A strong password which you can’t remember is of no use. 

So, keep reading, we will explain to you some very easy methods to create strong passwords and also remember them.

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Habits to Avoid

A common habit of users having multiple online accounts is to either keep their passwords too simple or to keep the password the same for all of their online accounts. These types of practices can lead you to great trouble, as the dangers of cybercrime are increasing day by day. The cybercriminals are becoming more active using the latest technologies and can crack your easy passwords in seconds. 

Google has recently declared a list of the most common and most weak passwords that people use in their portals. As per that list “Password” is the most common password in the world. Another common password that hackers can crack easily is the combination of your last name and your year or date of birth, for example for Ram Singh whose birth year is 1980, a common password is “singh1980”. 

Such type of password can easily be cracked by hackers if they find out your personal details.

A Creative Method for a Strong Password

The method which we are going to explain to you here, by using that you can easily create a strong unique password and can easily remember that. 

You can use phrases that you know or like to create a strong password. Let’s see with an example.

A common English phrase is “Better Late Than Never”. This phrase can be converted to be a password easily like “B8rL@ThnNvr” You can create your own such passwords that you can remember easily.

Some other examples for your help are below.

1. 2BorNot2B_ThatIsThe? (To be or not to be, that is the question)
2. L8r_L8rNot2day (Later, later, not today)
3. humTdumt$@t0nAwa11 (Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall)

Another important thing to remember is that you have to create a different password for different online accounts. This requirement can also be used to create more creative and unique passwords like below.

1. WNT2_uz_AMZ! (Want to use Amazon)
2. WNT2_uz_BoI! (Want to use Bank of India)
3. Pwrd4Acct-$$ (Password for an account at the bank)
4. Pwrd4Acct-Fb (Password for a Facebook account)

In this way, you can create different creative and easily memorable passwords for your different online accounts.

You can also use different smiley symbols in your password to make them memorable and strong. Special characters in passwords are allowed in almost all the online portals, you can use these special characters to insert smilies in your passwords like you can create “Icancr8pwd;)ri8?” form “I Can Create Password 😉Right?”

You can also create such a password, it’s process is fun and can easily be remembered.

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Managing Your Password

Due to a great number of online accounts, sometimes we can’t able to remember all the passwords so in that situation we start to use the same password in multiple online accounts. But this practice is very dangerous for our online security as a breach in any one of our accounts can lead to a breach in other accounts also. So to manage this situation we have a solution, use of Password Managers.

You can use a reliable password manager on your mobile or PC to create or save passwords for your different online accounts. You just have to remember only one Master password of that password manager app.

But be careful, if you forget the master password then there will be no option to unlock your password manager app as these apps are works on encryption methods that will not allow any other method to unlock.

There are many good password manager apps available for your service, some of the best ones are Keepass, 1password, Lastpass, Keeper. You can use any one of them to save your passwords.

Tips to Remember 

1. Create passwords of a minimum of 10 characters long.
2. Use special characters, small & capital letters, and numerics.
3. Never use the same passwords for multiple accounts.
4. Don’t use your personal information for creating passwords.
5. Don’t use common dictionary words.
6. Don't share your passwords. Never!
7. Use a good password manager application.
8. Always use the two-factor authentication method if available with your password.

Conclusion

Password is a very sensitive part of your online world, it is the key that you never want to lose or share with others. So make a habit of creating a strong password for all of your online accounts using the creative methods as explain in this post and secure your online account from cybercriminals.

Do share this article with your friends and family but don’t share your password.