Password secrets Unleashed!

Did passwords strong enough to protect your valuable information?

Actually the answer is NO! Theoretically there is no password which is 100% secure.. I.e. all passwords can be hacked! That’s why fingerprint reorganization technology all came into market! Even though theoretically all passwords are hack able but practically there are several difficulties. A very strong password will take about several years to hack practically; maybe it will take more than 10 to 20 years to hack the strongest password in the world even if with a super computer! Do you think the password will be same throughout those years when hackers run the super computer? No rite.. Till now I am saying about the strongest passwords using by big organizations like defense and all. Even now some organizations also dont understand some vulnerabilities inside their system.

What about your passwords? End users password can be hacked with in 30 min by an expert hacker! So do you want to change your password in every 30 min? If an expert hacker targeted you as his next victim, whatever you do without the basic understanding about security is absolutely a waste of time... So how you protect yourself with good passwords?
• Use long words as much as possible
• Include numbers and symbols
• Use alternate uppercase and lowercase
• Avoid dictionary letters
• Use unique words not in dictionary
• Always use logout button whenever you want to close a logged in site, don’t just close the window without logout especially while using Internet banking
• Don’t copy paste any scripts or codes into your address bar no matter whoever sends it to you or whatever it says, there is a great threat in that and it may spread to your contacts with you as the sender
• See the below passwords and select the strongest one by yourself and change your passwords with that logic in mind
1. Eg: youshouldfollowme
2. y0u5h0u1df011wme
3. #y0u$h0u1df011wme@
The above way you can change your passwords for your emails. But remember no passwords are 100% secure!

Which one do you think is better longer the password the time taken to hack is more; mixed characters password the difficulty to hack is more..

So what about protecting the computer with valuable pieces of information?
In my college there are more than fifteen thousand students and our college computers are highly secure with all the most modern soft wares and hardware’s. Last week one of our friend had found a great vulnerability inside the campus network which maybe exploited in a way that all user name and passwords can be recovered using a third party software..
To protect your computer the best ways are
• Restrict physical access to others
• Use a boot up password instead of windows password
• If possible change to windows vista which has better security than XP
• Disable remote access feature in your computer
• Change first boot device to hard disk all the time and set a admin password for boot up which will needed to change boot settings
• Backup all important documents to a cd, use an encryption software to encrypt it before copying to cd.
• Don’t share thumb drives or any storage devices with others, if you share check your device thoroughly for any new programs installed or run a virus scan before using it.
• Don’t open unknown attachments in your email, if you want to open first check the file extensions and make sure its a well known file extension like .doc or something
• Never open extensions with .exe or .bat mail attachments
• Viruses can be embedded into files like .doc or .ppt so run a virus scan before opening
• Try to open the attachment in some other computer rather than opening in your computer
• Run full system scan at least once in a week
• Change all passwords weekly
• Don’t use remember me
Practice good security habits with the computer like usual password changing and change passwords with the above key points in mind...
Don’t use internet banking with a computer without a good antivirus like Norton. Update the antivirus software daily or whenever new updates are available...
Try not to save any passwords or set any passwords for any software within the harddisk, because passwords are saved as hashes (a bunch of hexadecimal characters) and any one who can retrive this can decode the hash code to get the actual password…
If you have any doubts with any security issues feel free to contact me...! Comment me if you want to know how to set boot password or any other doubts…!