"If you make your password long, use multiple character sets. So the longer and the more characters that you use, the more difficult it's going to be for a brute force type of attack to be successful."
"Now, if I want to just see what about just the word password, right?"
"So Have I Been Pwned is always a great way to check to see if a password is weak or strong."
"I think it's good that you highlighted that, because on other videos that I've created, the first complain I get is people say, 'You're using a simple password.'"
"I would say you want a long, random and unique password."
"And your passwords, let's just say they're gonna be long, random and unique and over 60 characters."
"If you want that security and you deal with a lot of passwords for a lot of different sites which most of us do, this is an invaluable app that you can get for your Mac."
"LastPass relieves the trouble of looking for passwords and eliminates the anxiety around getting locked out of your accounts because you forgot your passwords."
"Having a strong password will be your first line of defense."
"The only way to protect yourself against this hack is by using a long and highly complex password."
"When you use NordPass, it makes it easy to generate unique and complex passwords, identify weak, old, and reused passwords, and store your password securely in an encrypted Vault."
"The best passwords are the filthy long ones with tons of numbers and symbols."
"Passwords on their own make us basically sad."
"You don't need to be a cool hacker to hack people if your passwords are weak."
"All passwords are basically hashed. Remember what hashing is, it's basically a one-way encryption."
"You do not want to reuse old passwords again and again."
"Lady, that's literally the whole point of passwords."
"Put your passwords on autopilot with LastPass."
"Password management is a tricky business."
"A hash is effectively a digital fingerprint, and if I have a hash, I can now take a password, hash it, and then compare those two hashes to see if they're identical. That's how we're able to store passwords without actually storing the password."
"This just shows how quickly we can crack simple passwords."
"We humans tend to use passwords that are easy to type, easy to remember, and even reuse the same password over and over again."
"Pass keys eliminate the need for passwords."
"Manage all of your passwords in one place knowing they're safe and secure with NordPass."
"Users must be educated in secure password practices."
"Never transmit passwords in plain text."
"Passwords alone are becoming less and less secure when it comes to authentication."
"...it's impossible to remember dozens of unique passwords so what's the solution? Well, this is where nordpass business comes in."
"One of the most common ways cybercriminals gain access to sensitive information is through weak passwords."
"ChatGPT can assist in creating strong and unique passwords, stored securely in an encrypted format."
"Gmail doesn't actually ask you to enter your Google password."
"When in doubt about passwords, go with Secrets Manager."
"Passwords really aren't good enough, anymore."
"Gone are the days of forgetting your passwords or trying to remember where you wrote it all down."
"This was incredible data. It was such a rare glimpse into what passwords people are actually using in the real world on a massive scale. Nothing like this had ever been seen before."
"What Samuel Stearns essentially does here is that while Philip Stern couldn't really access all this information because of the safeguards put in place by Samuel Stearns when the project was originally launched quite literally a giant password."
"Change vendor supplied default passwords before devices are pushed into production."
"If you use a bad password it is relatively easy to break into."
"Somehow password1 and password123 still work."
"Your Windows operating system actually stores your wireless network and Wi-Fi passwords in clear text."
"You can assume that all these usernames and passwords are now in the hands of whatever attacker that got into this computer."
"The continued domination of passwords over all of the methods of in-user authentication is a major embarrassment for security researchers."
"We're storing these passwords with a hash, and we never see that original password value, which is super nice."
"People are always the weakest point of an organization, and people will be lazy with their passwords unless you absolutely force them to use long passwords."
"Passwords are your first line of defense."
"Ensure that each user has their own login; don't share passwords ever."
"It's a simple and robust mechanism to allow you to manage password complexity."
"This is tremendously helpful for creating long and very complex passwords that a typical human could never remember."
"Passphrases are complex and very long but are generally easier to remember and type."
"This makes them the ideal memorized secret for something like a master password."
"You never want to store a clear text password in your database."
"You always should have a password manager and different passwords for all of your accounts."
"Always give it a nice strong password."
"Passwords, despite their wide use, are actually not a good mechanism for remote authentication."
"The strength of a password is highly dependent upon the number of characters."
"Strong and unique passwords are hard to guess and unique so that even if a hacker guesses one, they can't access other accounts."
"We have it setting a secure password."
"One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself online is to ensure that your passwords are not the same on every single service."
"You should always change the default passwords."
"Use strong passwords, don't use the same passwords for all of your different accounts."
"Remember the only two things that you need to take away from this video are don't store plain text passwords in the database and use bcrypt to hash your user's passwords."
"Make sure to use unique passwords across all websites and all applications."
"Always create and maintain a strong and unique password for each and every account you have."
"Use a strong password with every account you create."
"It's amazing, it just really makes it so easy to keep track of really strong passwords."
"Unique passwords with random words and numbers with no meaning are always going to be the most secure."
"Never ever ever store plain simple text user passwords in your database."
"Having really strong passwords, especially on the admin accounts, can make your passwords literally millions of times harder to guess."
"Using complex passwords is a critical component of your security."
"Protect our accounts... by way of these things called passwords."
"Hashing is the process of taking a password as input and somehow converting it to a so-called hash or hash value."
"We're getting out of the business, potentially, as a society of having to remember dozens or hundreds or thousands of different passwords for all of our accounts."
"Don't reuse passwords, use MFA everywhere."
"All of your passwords need to be long, unique, and random."
"Instead of storing passwords inside of the database, store a hashed version of the password."
"You should pick a really strong password that has upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, and it's not a word."
"You want to use upper and lower case letters and numbers."
"Under no circumstance can ever store a user's password in plain text in our database."
"The salt makes each individual password unique."
"You're never going to store a plain text password in a database."
"The basis of my project was to include the strength and security of passwords."
"Use a strong password; it will be your first line of defense."
"Acquiring saved passwords from browsers and password managers."
"Thou shall not use weak passwords."
"Everyone uses the same flawed mechanisms for making a password, right? Your birthday one two three four, I mean come on guys, right?"
"Passwords are just not enough right, we need to do something to fix the problem."
"In more than 80% of hacking-related breaches, weak or stolen passwords were used."
"These are very important; without that, you can't make your password secure."
"In my book, 2FA is just as important as a strong password, and they mutually help each other keep you safe."
"The key thing with password hashes is that they need to be slow enough that it makes the cracking process infeasible."
"The best passwords are and always will be random mixtures of letters and numbers."
"Strong passwords should include letters, numbers, and even special characters."
"We do not want to just save a plain text password inside of any database."
"Remember the password is 'Ill gnats', Stan Lee backwards, and it unlocks all the costumes."
"Passwords suck. Who likes passwords? Raise your hand if you think passwords are awesome."
"We need something better, and passwords are one of those things that I'm surprised we still have."
"A really good password will have 10 to 12 characters, it's going to have capital letters, it's going to have numbers, it's going to have special characters."
"Do not use the same password anywhere more than once."
"NordPass provides exceptional password management solutions with industry-leading security."
"Never store passwords in clear text, use libraries like bcrypt to store password hashes."
"KeePass is a free open source password manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way."
"You can store all of your passwords in one database, which is locked with a master key so you only have to remember one single master key to unlock the whole database."
"The password has to be greater than eight characters, contain numbers, both uppercase and lowercase letters, and it also has to contain special characters."
"It's better to have a really long password and then paste it into the form than memorize a really short password that someone else could guess."
"Make your passwords obscure, hard to guess, unique, and random."
"I've got the antidote to your password madness; it's simple, it's effective, and it'll make your passwords nearly uncrackable."