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Smart Passwords

In a world where personal information is increasingly accessed online, protecting passwords is important for privacy and security. The document provides tips for creating strong, unique passwords such as using a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, changing passwords regularly, and avoiding using personal information that can be easily guessed. It also lists some of the most common passwords that are vulnerable to hacking.

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Smart Passwords

In a world where personal information is increasingly accessed online, protecting passwords is important for privacy and security. The document provides tips for creating strong, unique passwords such as using a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, changing passwords regularly, and avoiding using personal information that can be easily guessed. It also lists some of the most common passwords that are vulnerable to hacking.

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Smart passwords

In a world of online banking, business security, social networking and email galore, the internet can be scary. Personal privacy is vulnerable to cybercrimes. Here are a few tips to create safer passwords to help secure your privacy. 1. Change your passwords regularly 2. Create strong, more secure passwords by using combinations of alpha-numerical characters and symbols 3. Create multiple passwords for various sites rather than use one password that can be hacked to access your business and personal information 4. Avoid using your name or family names, social security, license number and other personal information that can result in more vulnerability 5. Try using the verse from a favorite song, favorite unique animal or vehicle and add in a symbol or number in between characters SplashData created rankings based on millions of stolen passwords posted on line by hackers. Here are the top 25 worst passwords: password, 123456, 12345678, qwerty, abc123, monkey, 1234567, letmein, trustno1, dragon, baseball, 111111, iloveyou, master, sunshine, ashley, bailey, passw0rd, shadow, 123123, 654321, superman, qazwsx, michael, football.

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