This article explains how to develop a strong password and listed out special characters which can be added to a password to make it hack-proof.
Password special characters are selected punctuation characters that are present on standard US keyboard and frequently used in passwords.
Over the years, the internet has been facing issues with hackers penetrating several online accounts which have been secured with a password.
On basics, we were told that a password should be something easy for us to remember but hard for another person.
That teaching has now have been defeated — so much software has been developed which can guess thousands of passwords in less than a minute.
Many websites out there are prone to brute force attack, so it will be in your best interest to protect your account on such websites
The best password is that which will be very hard for both humans and machines to guess. The only way to get such a password is by adding at least a special character, a numeric number, a capital letter, and a small letter, all should be combined in at least an eight password string.
After making the password very difficult, you may have to write it down in a hidden place just in case if you forget your created strong password.
How To Save Strong Password
The reason why lots of people will prefer to use easy passwords is because of the challenge of remembering the acclaimed strong passwords. This is why a lot will want to use their name, phone number, or date of birth as their password. Such computed passwords can easily be hacked in with just an intelligent guess.
Almost all browsers can be linked to a user account, all you have to do is to link your email account to your browser. After doing this, you can then save your password. Once you enter your password on any webpage on your browser, you will get an option to save your password, simply accept it or press ok.
Anytime you open that webpage the password will auto-fill itself. Inside the browser settings, you can also go and view the password and username linked to it as well as the site URL you created the password on.
On the table below is the list of special characters that can be added to a password.
| Password Special Characters | Name (Meaning) |
|---|---|
| Space (not support on all sites) | |
| ! | Exclamation |
| “ | Double quote |
| # | The number sign (hash) |
| $ | Dollar sign |
| % | Percent |
| & | Ampersand |
| ‘ | Single quote |
| ( | Left parenthesis |
| ) | Right parenthesis |
| * | Asterisk |
| + | Plus |
| , | Comma |
| – | Hyphen |
| . | Full stop |
| / | Slash |
| : | Colon |
| ; | Semicolon |
| < | Less than |
| = | Equal sign |
| > | Greater than |
| ? | Question mark |
| @ | At sign |
| [ | Left bracket (left square bracket) |
| \ | Backslash |
| ] | Right bracket (right square bracket) |
| ^ | Caret |
| _ | Underscore |
| ` | Grave accent (backtick) |
| { | Left brace (left curly bracket) |
| | | Vertical bar |
| } | Right brace (right curly bracket) |
| ~ | Tilde |
Example of Strong Passwords
- d3=EN=TQ9jdx&%xe
- [email protected]
- GR8/<4(KgYxF,8[‘
- CE$wNL*Ba^-vQ9y5
- [email protected]?
The passwords above are 100% hack-Proof. Creating such a password may be a little bit difficult. You may want to use a password generator tool. Below is the list of some free online password generators.
Free Online Password Generator Tools
- https://passwordsgenerator.net/
- https://www.lastpass.com/password-generator
- https://my.norton.com/extspa/idsafe?path=pwd-gen
- https://www.random.org/passwords/
- https://www.isitwp.com/password-generator/
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“The passwords above are 100% hack-Proof.”
Do you really believe this?