Best passwords use three random words and complex passwords with numbers and special characters are ‘daft’, spy chiefs say
USING upper and lower cases along with numbers in your passwords is "daft", spy chiefs have revealed.It is far better to concoct passwords made up of three random words than use more complex variationsThe National Cyber Security Centre , part of Government Communications Headquarters , highlighted its "three random words" recommendation in a new blog post.
By contrast, more complex passwords can be ineffective because they can be more guessable for criminals and the software they build to detect them, the advice says. Criminals allow for such patterns in their hacking software, which negates any desired added security from such passwords. By contrast, passwords constructed from three random words tended to be longer and harder to predict, and used letter combinations which were more difficult for hacking algorithms to detect.
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