It was reported that about 2 million login credentials were compromised today such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. It was said that a botnet controller called "PONY" was leaked online and has able to steal all your credentials.
So, the best thing to do is make a hard combination of words and numbers or even include a punctuation marks!
~1,580,000 website login credentials stolen
~320,000 email account credentials stolen
~41,000 FTP account credentials stolen
~3,000 Remote Desktop credentials stolen
~3,000 Secure Shell account credentials stolen
How to make a strong password:
Start with one or two numbers
add a word, make at least one character uppercase, perhaps misspell it
add a punctuation mark #$@&*() etc
add another word, same rules as above, make the two words 100% unrelated
end with one or more numbers, and another punctuation mark
Example : 49AlleygattoR+LeNtilS12#
Source:
http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-pony.html
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