Shahid Online - Tech Corner

A hectic start to the new year. People having problems with their routers, hacked accounts and miscellaneous computing tidbits has kept me busy. After reading an article on T3 about online banking , got me thinking about security. It is amazing that people still reuse old passwords everywhere, most of them fairly easy for a hacker to break. Not only are consumers facing such grief, many corporations who let people choose their own passwords are (in a way) prone to an attack of some sort. Because, when left to their own devices, their choice of passwords are not very strong. So it is in this vain that my choice of a recommended site is PC Tools' Password Generator . This tool is absolutely brilliant at generating strong passwords and also presents phonetics to the password in case of misreading. Check it out at: http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/ Happy securing.

"Yeah, why not?"... "Erm...." Now you hit that stumbling block. You can't think of just any password, it has to be secure. So instead of racking your brains and ending up with a headache, why don't you download a random password generator. Useful for people, like myself, who create systems that require predefined users and passwords. One tool that tops my list is PC Tools Password Utilities . This tool gives you loads of parameters in building a complex password. Plus, if you do think of one, you can check how strong it is in this tool. Forgetting passwords is rather annoying and this tool has a Password Revealer function to help you remember. Though it only works with Internet Explorer. Haven't got a need for it yet, but handy to have just in case.