The worst passwords of 2019: They're so weak even a novice hacker could crack them. - NBCNewsBETTER
Many of us have dozens of online accounts. While the goal is to have a strong and unique password for every one of them, most people simply won’t do that.
It’s critical to have a unique password — one that’s really strong — on your most sensitive accounts: financial, social media and email. According to Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at“Your financial accounts are very, very important — a close number two — but in so many cases, you can unlock those financial accounts simply by doing a password reset to your email,” Wisniewski said. “Your email account unlocks every other account you own when you hit the password reset button.
For someone who only has a few online accounts and is not technically savvy, writing down their passwords and putting that list in a safe place, might be the only option. If you are technically savvy, a password manager that generates unique passwords and then remembers them on all of your devices, makes sense.
With a password manager, you only have to remember one really complex password — the key to that program — that you guard vigorously and never share with anyone.to help you choose. Some of these companies let you test drive free versions of their product. Apple and Google have password managers built into their operating systems.
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