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Some tips in creating a strong password

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* Avoid using any words that you can look up in a dictionary. These include common misspellings of words.

* If you follow good security practices and try to change your password every say 6 months, do not just increment a digit or the digit in your current password

* Avoid creating a password that begins or ends with a number because they can be easily guessed that passwords which have a number in the middle.

* Avoid creating a password which someone can easily guess by knowing a little bit about you. This includes names of pets or family members or sports teams.

* Avoid creating a password which includes words for popular culture.

* Always create a password that requires the usage of both hands on the keyboard. Why is this important? So someone who may be looking over your shoulder don't need to worry about just looking on one side of the keyboard. Again much easier to guess.

* Always have a password that uses uppercase and lowercase letters, has numbers and special characters.

* Make sure that the minimum length of your password is at least 7 characters.

* Do you know that pressing the ALT key and pressing numbers generates a unique set of characters. If you can do this, I would highly recommend it.


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