You are responsible for any activity that originates with your accounts. Therefore it's essential that you choose good passwords and keep them secret.

The essential elements of password security:

1. Don't tell anyone your password.
2. Don't write your password down anywhere.
(Except temporary passwords that you change immediately)
3. Make your password easy for you to remember but hard for someone else to guess.
4. If you think there's even a chance someone else might know your password, change it.
5. Change your password periodically, even if you think nobody knows it.
6. Make sure no one is watching when you enter your password.

A secure password is:

* at least 8 characters long — longer is better
* composed of three of these character classes:
o lower-case letters: abcd...
o upper-case letters: ABCD...
o numeric: 1234...
o non-alphanumeric: !@#$<,"...

Source :

http://www.wikihow.com/Ch oose-a-Secure-Password

http ://www.dowling.edu/mydowling/T ech/good-passwords.html

Answered by Reeta K , an ibibo Master, at 8:48 PM on May 11, 2008

hi nisha!
hru!

Choosing a secure password is a matter of creating unlikely letter and number combinations. The more obscure your password, the tougher it will be to crack.

1. Do not use words or phrases that have personal significance.
2. Mix letters, numbers and symbols, and use case sensitivity (upper and lower case letters). This mixture is known as "pseudo-random alpha-numeric combination"; using this, it is almost impossible to "crack" somebody's password. (i.e. instead of "password," try "pAsS34%(6*2woRd," etc.)
3. Find a good way to remember. A good way to do this is to choose the first letters of a sentence that you will remember. e.g. "I have 2 dogs called Rover and Fido" gives: Ih2dcRaF

* Use punctuation to your advantage. To incorporate a colon into the previous example, remember the sentence as "I have 2 dogs: Rover and Fido", which would give: Ih2d:RaF
4. Try to memorize the password, and avoid writing it down. Somebody could very easily find the slip of paper that the password is written on.
5. The longer the better. Don't make a password that's less than 6-8 characters. Anything less can be deduced from brute force software.
6. Do not use the same password for everything. If someone finds this password, they would have access to everything. At the very least, make at least one password for sensitive things (i.e. online banking, etc.) and one for everything else (AIM, email, etc.). Here is an example:

* Let us suppose you have 5 email accounts, 3 operating system passwords, 3 bank accounts (each with user name, password, extra security pin), 10 internet forum user/passes, 1 cellular phone (uses 2 to 4 pins). (If you are a programmer or db administrator, multiply the total by 3). Say for each of these, you chose a variation of "pAsS34%(6*2woRd,". Try to memorize 20 of those gibberish sequences! It's quite difficult, but if you make your sentences relevant to each situation, it will be easier - for example, for banking, your sentence could be "I want to have 1 million pounds every day" (Iw2h1m£ed), and for your emails it could be "I hope no one reads my emails or hacks in!" (Ihn1rmeohi!).
* Use something you see whenever you need this password to generate the password. Federal Security Bank might lead to FsBmA3456.
* Use a telephone keypad or 10 character phrase (i.e. blackstump) to encode numbers as letters or vice versa.


source : password.com
thanks!
take care!

Answered by Aryan Singh , an ibibo Specialist, at 9:01 AM on May 02, 2008

To choose a secure password that is easy for you to remember, follow these simple steps:

1. Do not use personal information. You should never use personal information as a part of your password. It is very easy for someone to guess things like your last name, pet's name, child's birth date and other similar details.
2. Do not use real words. There are tools available to help attackers guess your password. With today's computing power, it doesn't take long to try every word in the dictionary and find your password, so it is best if you do not use real words for your password.
3. Mix different character types. You can make a password much more secure by mixing different types of characters. Use some uppercase letters along with lowercase letters, numbers and even special characters such as '&' or '%'.
4. Use a passphrase. Rather than trying to remember a password created using various character types which is also not a word from the dictionary, you can use a passphrase. Think up a sentence or a line from a song or poem that you like and create a password using the first letter from each word.

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 5:33 AM on May 01, 2008

you must choose a password that is combination of digits and alphabets and not related to your name or hobbies.

Answered by pooja , an ibibo Master, at 9:27 PM on April 30, 2008

well Nisha, You are responsible for any activity that originates with your accounts. Therefore it's essential that you choose good passwords and keep them secret.

The essential elements of password security:

1. Don't tell anyone your password.
2. Don't write your password down anywhere.
(Except temporary passwords that you change immediately)
3. Make your password easy for you to remember but hard for someone else to guess.
4. If you think there's even a chance someone else might know your password, change it.
5. Change your password periodically, even if you think nobody knows it.
6. Make sure no one is watching when you enter your password.

A secure password is:

* at least 8 characters long — longer is better
* composed of three of these character classes:
o lower-case letters: abcd...
o upper-case letters: ABCD...
o numeric: 1234...
o non-alphanumeric: !@#$<,"...

For more details visit the sites :

http://www.wikihow.com/Ch oose-a-Secure-Password

http ://www.dowling.edu/mydowling/T ech/good-passwords.html

Answered by Saurabh , an ibibo Master, at 8:19 PM on April 29, 2008

Do not use words or phrases that have personal significance.
Mix letters, numbers and symbols, and use case sensitivity (upper and lower case letters). This mixture is known as "pseudo-random alpha-numeric combination"; using this, it is almost impossible to "crack" somebody's password. (i.e. instead of "password," try "pAsS34%(6*2woRd," etc.)
Find a good way to remember. A good way to do this is to choose the first letters of a sentence that you will remember. e.g. "I have 2 dogs called Rover and Fido" gives: Ih2dcRaF
Use punctuation to your advantage. To incorporate a colon into the previous example, remember the sentence as "I have 2 dogs: Rover and Fido", which would give: Ih2d:RaF
Try to memorize the password, and avoid writing it down. Somebody could very easily find the slip of paper that the password is written on.
The longer the better. Don't make a password that's less than 6-8 characters. Anything less can be deduced from brute force software.
Do not use the same password for everything. If someone finds this password, they would have access to everything. At the very least, make at least one password for sensitive things (i.e. online banking, etc.) and one for everything else (AIM, email, etc.). Here is an example:
Let us suppose you have 5 email accounts, 3 operating system passwords, 3 bank accounts (each with user name, password, extra security pin), 10 internet forum user/passes, 1 cellular phone (uses 2 to 4 pins). (If you are a programmer or db administrator, multiply the total by 3). Say for each of these, you chose a variation of "pAsS34%(6*2woRd,". Try to memorize 20 of those gibberish sequences! It's quite difficult, but if you make your sentences relevant to each situation, it will be easier - for example, for banking, your sentence could be "I want to have 1 million pounds every day" (Iw2h1m£ed), and for your emails it could be "I hope no one reads my emails or hacks in!" (Ihn1rmeohi!).
Use something you see whenever you need this password to generate the password. Federal Security Bank might lead to FsBmA3456.
Use a telephone keypad or 10 character phrase (i.e. blackstump) to encode numbers as letters or vice versa.

Answered by ayisha , an ibibo Master, at 5:44 PM on April 28, 2008

There are some methods to create secure password you should have to follow any one of them:

Method 1: Use the first character of each word in a phrase, song or poem to create a "mnemonic". For instance:

* Start with "If you can't beat a computer at chess, try kickboxing".
* Take the first letter of each word: "iycbacactkb".
* Vary it with special characters, punctuation and capitals, and you've got "Iycbac@c,tKB".

It looks like 12 characters of gobbledy-gook, but it's (1) long enough, (2) complex enough, (3) easy enough to remember - so it's a good password.

Method 2: Alternate between one consonant and one or two vowels. This provides nonsense words that are usually pronounceable, and thus easily remembered. Examples: routboofip or quadpopgoor. Then exchange some letters for numbers, and capitalize some of the letters: routb00fIP QU@dp0pgooR

Method 3: Choose three short words and paste them together with a punctuation and numbers between them. For example: Dog;rain2sit book+Mug=sleep kid5.goaT!fish

Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 3:50 PM on April 28, 2008

U can very well choose a secure email password by including a mixup of alphabet, numeric and special charectors.

Avoid use of ur vehicle registration no., date of birth, name of family member, like common thing.

Answered by Hem@nt , an ibibo Master, at 10:31 AM on April 28, 2008

u must use combination of alphabet and numbers this is secure

Answered by ani , an ibibo Advisor, at 11:54 PM on April 27, 2008

just choose both alpha and numeric letter in your password to make it strong. and must be higher from 10 digit.

Answered by atul , an ibibo Specialist, at 11:48 PM on April 27, 2008