• Password Generators — Your first line of defense

    Posted on March 10, 2025 at 02:43 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

    Deanna McElveen

    By Deanna McElveen

    If you create a password that is easy to remember, you create a password that can be cracked.

    These are no longer the days of P@ssw0rd123, Fido2002, or 22222. No joke — an entire county government in our area used that last one on both of their servers until we helped them out.

    You may think your password is fine because your account gets locked if a wrong password is tried too many times. Well, that used to be the case. If a hacker used a rainbow table that tried 2 million passwords and could try only one possible password every 15 minutes, that would have taken a very long time.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.10.0, 2025-03-10).

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