Creating a strong password to protect yourself and your information.
To protect yourself and your information, you'll want to use passwords that are long, strong, and difficult for someone else to guess while still keeping them relatively easy for you to remember.
Tips for creating strong passwords
- Never use personal information such as your name, birthday, user name, or email address. This type of information is often publicly available, which makes it easier for someone to guess your password.
- You can use a longer password. Your password should be at least six characters long, although, for extra security, it should be even longer.
- Don't use the same password for each account. If someone discovers your password for one account, all of your other accounts will be vulnerable.
- Try to include numbers, symbols, and both uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Avoid using words that can be found in the dictionary. For example, swimming1 would be a weak password.
- Random passwords are the strongest. If you're having trouble creating one, you can use a password generator instead, like Firefox Password Manager.
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