Users of social networks, e-mail, online stores, bank card holders periodically have to come up with strong passwords. An online password generator will help you choose a unique and secure combination of letters, numbers and symbols.
Mistakes when choosing a password
The most common mistakes when choosing a password are related to the desire to make an easy-to-remember combination of numbers and letters.
- In terms of frequency of use, classic combinations like 123456789 in combination with qwerty, asdf and etc. Such passwords are unprotected and crack in a few seconds.
- Often we use the date of birth, considering such information to be confidential. However, data on time, place of birth and residence are contained on many sites, and and find out such "secrets" easy to communicate. There are few options for combinations of numbers in this code, and you can even sort them out manually.
- It is impossible to consider a personal name, surname or nickname of a pet, commonly used words, for example: password, iloveyou, monkey and et etc. p.
Interesting facts
Passwords should be changed whenever you receive strange messages or find out your account has been hacked. This truth is known to every system administrator and experienced user, but far from everyone cares about information security:
- Nearly 60% of users use the same or nearly the same password on all accounts.
- More than a third of users never change their passwords, or do so less than once a year. About half of the companies around the world store passwords in text documents.
- Most passwords are 6 to 10 characters long.
- In 47% of American internet users were attacked by hackers, resulting in theft of personal data.
- In 186 million, in US — 147 million, in Germany — 23 million. The total damage is estimated at $172 billion.
- It takes from 0.2 milliseconds to 1 seconds to crack a normal password. To crack the "correct" the password will take months and years.
The generator generates passwords by random selection of numbers, letters and symbols. It will take you a fraction of a second to get a unique combination that will become a reliable protection for your privacy.
