How to create the perfect password

Standard words won't protect you from determined hackers. But you can make your online accounts safe in just a few easy steps

Only idiots, we know, use "password" as their password. Or "123456". Or "football" (the seventh most common password in the world). Maybe you carefully add an upper case letter, an unusual character or two, plus a few numbers to your Pa$swOrd.

But with hackers using "brute force" software to make as many as 8m password guesses a second, don't kid yourself you are safe. This week LinkedIn told users to reset their accounts after more than 100m passwords appeared for sale online.

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