Very often, you are forced to use special characters, numbers, and uppercase and lowercase letters in a password. How Are Passwords Cracked?

2. Use complex passwords. This means, in a perfect scenario, a combination of symbols, letters and special characters. The longer the better. 3.

A 6-character password can now be breached in just seconds using brute force techniques in which a computer tries every possible combination of characters to work out the correct sequence.

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Burr recommended creating passwords that were essentially weird nonsense words, chock-full of special characters and occasional capital letters and numbers.

Their newly released app uses facial recognition technology to keep a person's passwords, photographs, documents and credit card numbers secure on their smartphone.

Government spy chiefs, however, have now warned complicated passwords made up of letters, numbers and special characters are ‘daft’. Instead they recommend choosing three random words to make ...

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