Hello, this is Rob. Now the purpose of this video is to show you the incredible importance of using different passwords on every site you use online, and how to use good passwords passwords that won't be guessed by a brute force attack. And I've got some amazing websites to share with you also to show you how many sites out there huge big sites run by companies of multi million dollars market cap have failed in keeping your information secure. And how many of your passwords are out there on the dark net being traded by criminals now show you that now. So if you go to the first site, I have been poned.com p WN ed, and you may well get a shock. Okay, so here we are on I have been poned calm it's a free service, all you have to do is enter an email address that you use regularly online.

So I've just put in one of my email addresses that I used to create accounts with various websites. And look, the information pertaining to my email address has been hacked on nine different breached sites and look at them. Big, big websites from big big companies, Adobe, Dropbox, Elance, linked in my space, Patreon and Tumblr. So just look at the quality of the companies that have failed to keep my information safe. Now what happens, for example, in the first one, if I was using the same password in Adobe that I was using elsewhere, then that information could be used by hackers to hack into other sites and into the Adobe sites as well. And this is the second With all of these sites, so what is this telling us when it's telling us not only that our information is not safe, and we have to take steps to keep it safe.

It's also showing us the importance of using a different hard to guess password on every different website that you create an account with online. And the way you do this, of course, is with a password manager. But how do you know whether your passwords are strong enough? In order to do that, you need to look at the second link on this PDF that I'll supply with this video. How secure is my password dotnet. So obviously, this site, how secure is my password dotnet shows you how secure your passwords are now, really important.

Don't put a password that you're using at the moment into this site. I don't think that would be a wise thing to do. What I'm trying to show You is the sorts of passwords that are secure, and the sorts of passwords that aren't secure. So remember in our example, on another video, I said, Ceri 1568, it looks pretty good. It's a word with a few random characters. Let's see if that is secure or not.

Someone's gonna copy it and paste it into this, how secure is my password dotnet size, and that password would be cracked in one day using brute force software. So that is not good. But remember that other passphrase I got a kind of easily memorable one, one that you could may be possibly used as a master password for your password manager. So the password you need to get as all your other passwords that says securely encrypted by the password manager. So let's select that and Go to how secure is my password.net and that password would take a computer 77 trade gain tilian years, I'm not sure what that means Trigon tilian. But I would dare say that is no long time, and it's highly unlikely a hacker would brute force that password.

Of course, the best way to generate passwords I find is with a secure password generator like this one called password generator dotnet. And you be fine with a 16 digit password of random uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. So we'll click Generate password there, Copy that, and in how secure is my password dotnet we find that that would take a computer about 41 trillion years to crack. So very secure there. So in the final analysis, the point This video is to get you to use different passwords on every site you have an account with online and always to use hard to guess passwords like the one in our example of 16 characters with uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. And the way you can do this to protect yourself is to use a password manager like LastPass one password calm or keep past dot info.

My name is Rob Kevin. I'll see you in another video.