Be careful with basic passwords

Published on 5/10/2024 at 11:00
Reading time: 2 min

Belgian citizens use basic passwords with a few letters or numbers. Example: 123456, newmember, azerty, standard, anderlecht. And if these passwords are used for a multitude of tools such as emails, online purchases, social networks, they can be recovered by hackers who will access the servers of associated structures. So it is always important to create strong passwords with more than 10 characters that contain lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters like / or €. If you want to check the security of your passwords, you can access the Bee-Secure site whose link I share with you: https://pwdtest.bee-secure.lu/. In this way, the analysis will allow you to see how hackers can, with their tools, quickly recover passwords. Another tip is to always enable two-step validation.

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