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Tuesday 10 December 2013

How to create a secure password that's easy to remember.

In the past couple of months, security researchers have discovered huge numbers of hacked passwords for popular websites posted to the net, available for hackers to use and abuse. One of the things made obvious is how many people use the same, easy-to-guess passwords for their online activities, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
The most popular passwords are "123456" or the even more clever "123456789" or the ever-popular "password." After we wrote about 2 million more user names/passwords unearthed this week, we heard from computer security expert Neal O'Farrell, executive director of The Identity Theft Council.

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This post originally appeared in Business Insider.

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