Password safety

Passwords are what make sure only you have access to your personal accounts on the web (ex: e-mail, online banking, Facebook and so on). For example, once someone signs up for e-mail and gives the website their name, address and other information, the password is what keeps other people from going to your account and viewing yourpersonal information . With so many passwords to remember from several websites, a lot of people make their passwords incredibly simple and easy to guess. Using words like apple or 123 as passwords are incredibly easy to guess and makes a hacker's job very easy when he tries to guess your password and steal yourpersonal information. Imagine how hard it would be to guess your passwords if all them where completely random, imagine if all your passwords went something like this: Gt:IRdr&L0 . Obviously, it's impossible to remember that password but that's why you should use a password database. There are several password databases available for download online and most are free. A good password database available for free is a program called KeePass. It is very easy to use. You simply write all of your passwords in the database and then use them whenever you need to login into an account online. KeePass also has the ability to generate random passwords like the one shown above. Your KeePass database will also be encrypted to avoid anyone but you from entering it.