Passwords are your protection against fraud and loss of confidential information.
Below are some tips on choosing Secure Passwords:
Make your password as long as possible
The longer a password is, the harder it is to guess or to find by trying all possible combinations (i.e., a brute force attack). Passwords of 14 characters or more are vastly more difficult to crack.
Use different types of characters
Include numbers, punctuation marks, symbols, and uppercase and lowercase letters.
Don’t use words that are in dictionaries
Don’t use words, names or place names that are usually found in dictionaries. Hackers
can use a dictionary attack (i.e., trying all the words in the dictionary automatically) to
crack these passwords.
Don’t use personal information
Others are likely to know information such as your birthday, the name of your partner or child, or your phone number, and they might guess that you have used them as a password.
Don’t use your username
Don’t use a password that is the same as your username or account number.
Use passwords that are difficult to identify as you type them in
Make sure that you don’t use repeated characters or keys close together on the keyboard.
