Security Tips

- What’s good password ?

>> Use different passwords for different Web sites. Maintain separate passwords for e-mail, work and other important Web sites and routine web- surfing.

>> Use difficult-to-guess password by taking the first alphabet from each word of a phrase. What is a good password? It is a password which is at least 8 characters long, not easily guessable, contains mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters as well as numbers, and preferably contains special characters like $, *, %, !, * etc. Some examples of a good password are: &(^.3235*cRack&.^).

>> Always use alphanumeric passwords with special characters and try to adopt phrasing technique to construct passwords which are easy to
remember, hard to guess and impossible to crack. Create a unique acronym. Never use a dictionary based password like guest, home etc. It takes little time for a good cracker to crack the password.

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