ers reuse the password which is thought up by them once (while nearly 50% from them were the victims of attacks from hackers).
Most of experts in safety agree in opinion that passwords have to be easily memorable, but difficult guessed. Too difficult and unclear combinations from characters will simply be forgotten. And to write passwords on stickers, pieces of paper, in notepads or somewhere else — not the most successful idea. Here it will better be limited to the hint clear only to the owner, but not someone to another.
One of parameters doing the password more difficult consists in using really rigid constructions. It is unlikely someone will be able to remember a set of twenty signs, like GdzIQaZyVaFgbh7dlu46. Actually, quite "painfully" to use such passwords in general. On the other hand, they really will be difficult to be cracked. Similar passwords are good for the systems demanding special safety and which are not used often.
As the password it is possible to use the phrase, previously coding it. For example on English "I want to be at the beach" in the coding can look as iw2b@theBeach. The memorable password which will be rather difficult for cracking. Under each system it is possible to pick up the different termination. Some systems allow even to use complete the sentence as passwords. Such passwords will not be forgotten and will be quite reliable.
For the purpose of data security increase by the known cloudy data storage of Dropbox the list from passwords which are forbidden to be used was created. In the list there are about 85100 passwords.
And Youzhny's University of Wales conducted researches which results showed that:
4,7% of users use the password of password;
8,5% of users select one of two options: password or 123456;
9,8% of users select one of three options: password, 123456 or 12345678;
14% of users select one of 10 most popular passwords;
40% of users select one of 100 most popular passwords;
79% of users select one of 500 most popular passwords;
91% of users select one of 1 000 most popular passwords.
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