How Strong are Your Passwords?
These days we can’t really get away with using silly passwords like “love” or your name spelled out because it is all just too simple to guess and even more simple to run a password generator against. If you do anything online such as banking, or paying your credit cards or other bills, chances are when you created your login with their website they required some sort of password requirements such as a minimum length, including at least one capital letter, etc… The question is though, is your password actually strong or just strong enough to pass it off with the website you registered on? It never hurts to get in the habit of having nice secure passwords containing lower and upper case letters, numbers, and symbols. Though I will admit it does get a bit tiring trying to always come up with these passwords off the top of your head, let alone remembering them. The way I see it, the easier they are to remember then the easier they are to crack; everything else can be handled by software.
The wonderful people over at PC Tools created this nifty utility on their website called the Password Generator and it does just that. You can choose a length anywhere from 4 to 64 characters, and select whether to include upper or lower case letters as well as numbers and symbols. You can even select to avoid similar or ambiguous characters such as a capital ‘O’ and a zero ‘0′. For those of you that are extremely security minded, they even have a secured version executed over an SSL connection.
From the PC Tools Website:
The PC Tools Password Generator allows you to create random passwords that are highly secure and extremely difficult to crack or guess due to an optional combination of lower and upper case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols.
To create a password use this link: http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
To use the SSL Secured version: https://secure.pctools.com/guides/password/