How Strong Is Your Password?

Big thanks to Ryan Archer for this post!

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How strong is your password?

This week's tech tip comes from our network administrator Rob. Check out this website to find out how long it would take a computer with a password cracking program to crack your password. (my password would take 39 days to crack my wife's 52 seconds...)

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

Here is a tip from Rob on how to make a stronger password: (his examples would take millions of years to crack)

Use phrase:

Swap out vowels for special characters for greater strength.

Example:
I Love My Dog > 1 L0v3 My D0g (52 million years to crack)
UCC is a Great Place > UCC 1s @ Gr3@t Pl@c3 (35 sextillion years)

Having tried my password on this site and realizing that it wasn't as strong as I thought it was I have opted to change my password to something stronger. If you decide to change your password to something stronger follow this link to change your password (remember it will take 15 minutes for the password to populate through the system)

http://www1.ucc.on.ca/pm/ (choose the 4th option)

Thanks,
Ryan Archer
@TechnoRy_UCC
https://sites.google.com/a/ucc.on.ca/technology-integration-site/