What password should I come up with for my account?

Nowadays, there is a real threat of losing your password from your personal account on social networks or from mail.

As a rule, even various antiviruses and firewalls cannot save you from losing your password. In this article we will try to talk about global problems and security.

The article is intended exclusively for beginners; old-timers most likely have nothing to read here. Take the safety rules as a basis and this will become a good habit.

So, let's discuss the main points of protecting your account from hacking.

In this article we will tell you what password to come up with for your account so that it does not get hacked.

How to create a password correctly?

Many users think that creating a password of 10 or more characters will reliably protect them from account theft. In fact, this is a lie.

With proper hacking, a hacker or any other attacker does not try to guess the password for your account. There are other, more interesting and faster ways to steal an account.

What password to set? In fact, everything is simple - we recommend creating some kind of login for yourself on social networks, it does not have to be your last name or first name.

Just some English word, for example root, flowers and others. Next, take your date of birth and month, for example you were born on January 1, 1980. Therefore, the date will be 01/01/1980.

To create a strong password from these sequences, just remember something like 0101root, or 011980flowers, and others. Come up with a sequence of such passwords for yourself.

Take our word for it, such passwords are very difficult to guess and no one will do this. But it will be very easy for you to remember them!

Important: never use just a combination of your date of birth in your password, be sure to add some rare English word

Methods of hacking accounts and ways to protect against them

It was not for nothing that we said that password strength will be quite adequate if you use our recommendation above. In fact, everything is very simple - any Internet resource, be it a postal service or a social network, is reliably protected from password guessing.

That is, it is very difficult to hack your account by brute force passwords; usually hacking occurs in completely different places.

1. Hacking method #1: by clicking on a malicious link.Using this method, a hacker steals special files (cookies) from your computer; they are stolen quite simply - just create a victim using a special link, and you can assume that your account has already been stolen.
   
   How to protect yourself: use anti-virus programs, as a rule, they block the theft of such data from your computer. And in general, it is better not to open any incoming links, even if it is your friend. Perhaps his account has already been hacked, and malicious messages are being sent from his profile letters.
   
   We also recommend opening links by simply copying them into a fresh browser. This is done simply, let’s say you still want to open some link, just copy it and open it in a completely different browser (for example Opera, Yandex Browser with Protect technology). In a fresh browser you you have virtually no data that can be stolen.


2. Hacking method No. 2: stealing additional data that is usually used to recover a forgotten password (additional mail, or access to the main one, security questions/answers). In this case, the attacker does not hack your mail specifically, but uses the ability to restore using standard system-recovery functions.
   
   Very often, to recover your password, you need an additional email that you specified during registration or a security question/answer specified in your account. If an attacker finds them out, then no strong password will save you.
   
   How to protect yourself: use strong passwords in each account. Our advice is that passwords should be different in each of your accounts, this increases the reliability of your data hundreds of times, since if one of the accounts is hacked, the rest will remain in reliability.
   
   It is also useful to set your account settings to link to a phone number, or log in via SMS. This also increases your account security significantly.


3. Hacking method No. 3: the user gives the password himself, or tells it to technical support. This hacking method is very simple, but at the same time the most popular. The user is allegedly contacted by technical support and asks for it change the password to the specified one or report the current password.
   
   We can say on our own that this is the most popular hacking method. Its whole essence is simple - the user trusts the one who contacted him. Sometimes it all looks so convincing that the victim does not even understand that he himself provided the password.
   
   How to protect yourself: never specify passwords yourself and do not share them with anyone, even technical support. Real technical support for any site will never ask for your password or ask you to change it to the one they specified.Change passwords to the ones you want.


4. Hacking method No. 4: the user enters a password on a fake site. This method is that the user can enter his password on a site that looks no different from the real one.
   
   For example, two sites vkontakte.ru and vkonktakte.ru look identical at first glance. In fact, only the first of them is official, and the second contains an extra letter in the address. This attacker's website!
   
   How to protect yourself: carefully check the address of the site where you enter your password. Go to sites from your browser bookmarks, and not via links from third-party sites. Many email services and social networks have a secure HTTPS protocol in the address, instead regular HTTP.

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