Password Safety

Passwords are a necessity of life...at least for now, but this article on password security from LifeHacker shows that you may want to rethink that go-to password you use on your accounts. Make sure to follow the useful links in the article for even more ways to protect yourself from the scary stuff you read.

This snippet from the article should give you something to think about while the whole article loads:

"Pay particular attention to the difference between using only lowercase characters and using all possible characters (uppercase, lowercase, and special characters – like @#$%^&*). Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the processing time for an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries."