Comments on: Emsisoft explores the worst passwords of 2016 https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26396/emsisoft-explores-the-worst-passwords-of-2016/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Holger Keller https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26396/emsisoft-explores-the-worst-passwords-of-2016/#comment-784971 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:43:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26396#comment-784971 I’d like to share another great tip we received from a blog reader on how to create secure passwords that are relatively easy to remember, using an ‘algorithm’ (thanks Dennis!):

For example a unique password algorithm for your account at Amazon can be as follows:
Select the keyboard character next to each letter in the word “amazon” (applies to the English QWERTY keyboard). If my algorithm is to select the keyboard character to the immediate upper-right then the “a” becomes a “w”. Do this with each character such that the “m” becomes a “k” and so
forth. This will generate a “Wkws0j” character string for the password that is unique to the website. Then add to this your own special password portion which can be anything; for example the name of a town, pet, or a calendar date. Continuing the example of the date (“March 28 2017”), and using the same approach as above, you end up with “Wkws0jKw5fu@*@)!&”.

The variations of algorithms are extremely large and can be as complex as you need. Just decide on your own algorithm and enjoy having unique, strong passwords for each account without having to memorize each or without having to write them down.

]]> By: Holger Keller https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26396/emsisoft-explores-the-worst-passwords-of-2016/#comment-784834 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:47:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26396#comment-784834 In reply to Gerry Avram.

Hi Gerry. LastPass is definitely a viable solution and beats the ones in the ‘word passwords’ list by a mile :)

]]> By: Gerry Avram https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26396/emsisoft-explores-the-worst-passwords-of-2016/#comment-784805 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:28:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26396#comment-784805 In reply to Tempus.

the idea is great for a master pass but the question I had was about different types of password management. I have more than 200 in and pw that constantly change and I’m only using an x-cell right now, please comment.

]]> By: Tempus https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26396/emsisoft-explores-the-worst-passwords-of-2016/#comment-784802 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:38:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26396#comment-784802 One of my favorite ways to create a new password is this: Take a phrase that you always can remember like : The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Okay, now take the first letter of each word, and you will end up with something like this, Tgiagotosotf . Add a date and a year at the end of the password, now you could have something like this: Tgiagotosotf 3/101982
Change some of the letters to capital letters and throw in a special sign and the end on the password, and you can end up with this: TgiaGotosotF3/101982#
This method has always worked fine for me. =))
(english is not my native language, but I hope you could understand my point anyway)

]]> By: Gerry Avram https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26396/emsisoft-explores-the-worst-passwords-of-2016/#comment-784794 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:18:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26396#comment-784794 what about LastPass? is it OK to use it?

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