Actually, it should go without saying that "123456" is not a password that should be used. Nevertheless, the evaluation of past hacks in the IT world has shown that many people set such easy-to-guess combinations as passwords. We would like to give you 5 quick tips for good passwords:
- Passwords should never be the same as your username, first or last name, date of birth or other personal information.
- Use a complex password. The longer and more complex a password is, the more secure it is against attacks. Mix numbers with small and capital letters and - if allowed - special characters. A good password has at least 12 characters, ideally more.
- Use one password for one account. Admittedly: this increases the additional effort. But if one of your accesses should be cracked, the other accesses secured with different passwords are still protected.
- Randomly generated passwords are always superior to made-up passwords. Today, hackers' algorithms are already very sophisticated and "translate" terms into common passwords and attack, for example, "password1234" as well as "Pa33wort!2e4".
- Store your passwords securely. The Post-it on the computer monitor with written down access data are just as nonsensical as saving them unencrypted on the hard disk.
If you have any questions about password assignment in PC CADDIE, you will find help in our online documentation as well as from the members of our support team.
