Create and Safeguard Passwords Wrap-Up

In this lesson, you discovered how a hacker guesses passwords using a dictionary attack.

To do this, you…Created ten pretend passwords, Copied a list of the 5,000 most common words, And created variations of the most common words hackers might use to guess potential passwords.

You also learned how to develop secure passwords using something memorable to you and adapting it with uppercase letters, symbols and numbers.

A strong password is one of the best ways to prevent unauthorized access to your online accounts, files, and devices and to protect your personal and financial information.

You learned strategies for keeping your passwords safe, like using different passwords for multiple accounts, never writing them down, storing them in a secure password manager and using two-step verification.

Keep using the strategies you learned in this lesson to secure “all” of your passwords and keep your identity as safe as possible.