SECURE PASSWORDS

Yesterday, we learnt how to make a stronger password and what a two-step verification was:

First of all, our teacher explained us everything and finally she gave us some questions to answer. These are the questions:

1. Think about 5 services you use with a password:

-Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, computers and mobile phones.

2. 6 recommendations to create a secure password: 

-It must have at least 8 characters, it shouldn't contain your name or the name of your company, it mustn't contain your personal information (such as: your ID, your  born date/place, etc...), you can't use words from the dictionary (ex.: sky/cielo), it can't be formed by letters or numbers that are adjacent in the keyboard (ex.: 123456asdfgh) and it must contain characters from each of the following groups: capital letters, lowercase letters, digits or special characters.

3. What is a password manager? Advantages and disadvantages:

A password manager is a software or hardware application that helps a user to store and organize passwords.

-Advantages: it is the best way to make sure you have a strong and unique password for every online account, without  a password manager people tend to have weak passwords and they can be hacked easily, you can aslo store you bank details, passport numbers, credit card, etc...

-Disadvantages: they have a single point of failure (with a password manager you have just one password and if that one password is compromised, everything will be compromised), the Terms & Conditions and, a virus can gain access to whatever is stored on your computer.

4. Which were the most common passwords used in 2017?:

-1234,asdfghjklñ, 12345asdfgh, qwerty, qwertyuiop, etc...

5. Write 5 strong passwords. Check their strength here:

  1) " h3ymynam3sD1ana "--- 609 milliion years.
  2) " wut1sg01ng0nh3r3 "--- 227 million years.
  3) " d0ntudar3t0says0 "--- 6 million years.
  4) " th1s1ss0c00lw0w "--- 175 thousand years.
  5) " 1l1k3ch0c0lat3 "--- 5 thousand years.

6. Two-step verification. What is that?: 

-It protects your accounts by requiring you to provide an additional piece of information after you give your password to get into your account. After entering your password correctly, an online service sends you a text message with a unique string of numbers that you will need to use to get access to your account.

*You can find a two-step verification on your Apple ID, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc...

Hope you find it useful.
Bye,
xxx