Rule #1 Use The Website Name In Your Password
For this rule you would simply mix cat and the website’s name into a password. For example my facebook password could be facebookcat or catfacebook. While this is better than just “cat” it still isn’t very secure so we have to actually MIX the password and the word up. The way I do this is I take the first 2 letters of the website then insert my word and then insert the last 2 letters of the website and that is my password. So for facebook the password would look like this: facatok and now we have a much better password that is easy to remember. All you have to do for this is remember the word you use and then look at the websites name or URL. I strongly recommend this password rule because if a hacker gets one of your passwords and you only use 1 for everything they can now log into all of your accounts.
Rule #2 Use Numbers In The Password
I really like the way this password looks right now however I want to add in a number to make sure that my password can be used for more websites, as most websites today do require you use at least 1 number and 1 letter in your password. Think of a number that you can remember easily, it could be your favorite number, birthday, anniversary or whatever else you can think of that would be easy to remember. For me the number 29 is easy to remember since my birthday is May 29th. The only thing left to do is decide where this number will always be in the password. The number could be at the beginning, middle or end of your password. I recommend putting the number either at the beginning or in the middle since most people will put the number at the end since it’s the last thing they think of putting into their new password. So now my password will be 29facatok so now the password is already pretty complicated and easy to remember. Just remember we are only 2 rules in and this password would probably already be deemed as “strong”.
Rule #3 Don’t Over Complicate It
The entire point of this is to have a password that is hard for others to guess or crack, however it has to be easy for you to remember. I strongly suggest only using 2 or 3 of the rules listed, I don’t suggest using all of the rules unless you have an awesome memory.
Rule #4 Using Symbols
Symbols are a surefire way to make your password extra secure however they can also be very hard to remember so here is a good way to use symbols in your password without making things complicated. Remember how my birthday was May 29th? Well I could use two symbols in my password that would be very easy to remember just by remember that my birthday is the 29th. The way that I can achieve this is by holding the shift key and typing 29 which gives me @( which are 2 different symbols that can be used in my password. So where to put them? Well anywhere is fine just as long as you remember where you put it. For myself I think putting this at the end will be easy to remember, I have 29 at the beginning and end of my password, very easy to remember. My new password now looks like this: 29facatok@( which probably would not be able to be cracked for quite some time.
Rule #5 Capital Letters
Another great way to make your password harder to crack is by mixing capital letters in with your password. Of course you want to make sure you have some sort of a pattern so it’s easy to remember. One pattern that I have used is doing every other letter a capital letter or just doing the last couple of letters a capital letter. To make things easier to type I’ll just do the last few letters capital in my password, so it would look like this now: 29facatOK@( which just adds even more complexity to the password and it is still quite easy to remember.
Rule #6 Mix Words Up
Another good way to get a harder to guess/crack password is by mixing two words together. For this we will mix cat and dog together which depending on our pattern could result in cdaotg or cadotg or any other combination you can think of. The important thing is to remember the combination otherwise you will not remember your password. This is something I would recommend for people with better than average memories, since mine sucks I don’t do this.
Rule #7 Use Letters To Make A Sentence
A great way to form random letters and numbers is by thinking of a phrase you can remember and taking the first letter of each word and using that for your password. For my example I will use the following phrase “I have 1 Xbox 360 and 1 PS3” so my password would look like this: Ih1x3a1p which would be very random and very easy to remember.
So now that you your new password picked out I’m guessing you want to see how strong it is. Below are two links to great websites to check out the strength of your password.
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