Use LSD Passwords (Long Strong and Different) #EightCyberSecurityTips

Use LSD Passwords (Long Strong and Different), a password manager will help you with this (tip 5 of 8, in no specific order) #EightCyberSecurityTips

Humans are not great at picking passwords. We tend to go for short passwords that are memorable to us. We often pick a family members name, or a sports team we follow, and then add a number on the end (because we are told that’s more secure).

And we then use that password everywhere.

Really passwords need to be three things.

🔵 Long - passwords should be long to make it harder to crack in a brute force attack

🔵 Strong - passwords need to be complex, as this also makes them harder to crack in a brute force attack. I like using three unusual and unconnected words, strung together with some special characters.

🔵 Different - every password should be different. Because then following a password breach we only have to change that one password.

Chris

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