Post on 17-Dec-2014
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Username Usage and Password Security
Username Usage
Attracting Negative Attention
• InYoFace• Badboy2U• Lookin4Luv• IMAHottie• FatMama• suPaFlirt
Revealing Information
• Tom_Evans34• Missy-13
• AndyKarateKid• ViolinGurl• restlinmatch
Good or Bad?• I8sushi2• Soccerstar• Puppygirl234• keKe1995• Bookworm• 2BorNot2b• Choco-holic• CapitlOfens
• AmrcanIdol2• BellaIsabella• DarkAngel666• Karla-Love-1996• SimplyMe• gun4hiRe• babyfaceLA• Watup?
Project
Create at least 3 different screen names that you think will meet all of these guidelines:
1. Names that are not likely to attract negative attention
2. Names that do not use bad language3. Names that don’t reveal any personal information4. Names that don’t reveal a real name, age, or gender
Password Security
Most Commonly Used Passwords
• Names of baseball, football or basketball teams• Birth dates of family members• The year of a special sports event • The word “password” or variation• The number sequence “123456” or
letter/number variation such as “abc123” or “123abc”
• The name of a family member, pet, favorite TV show character, celebrity or band
Why are student accounts easily hacked?
• The password is cracked using a password cracking program.
• The password is easily guessed by others who know personal things about the student.
• Students write their passwords down where others are able to see it.
• Students give their password to friends who then decide to use it or give it to others who use it.
• Other students see the password as the student enters it on a keyboard.
Check Your Password
a. Does your password include the name of a family member or pet? -3b. Does your password include a birth date of a family member? -3c. Does your password contain one or more words that could be found in a dictionary
(including French, Spanish, Italian, German)? -1d. Does your password contain a random set of numbers? +2e. Does your password contain both letters and numbers? +2f. Does your password have 8 or more characters? +2g. Does your password have less than 6 characters? -1h. Does your password contain one or more non-number, non-letter characters such as a !
Or =? +3i. Does the password contain the date of a well known event, such as the date a baseball
team won the pennant? -1j. Does your password contain at least 3 numbers in numerical sequence such as “123”? -
2k. Does your password contain any word spelled backwards? -1l. Is your password written down on any piece of paper within 15 feet of your computer?
-2m. Does your password contain your telephone number, zip code, area code, or a portion of
them? -2n. Does your password include a mixture of UPPER and lower case letters? +2o. Have you ever shared your current password with a friend? -3
Password Test ScoringEXCELLENT8 or higher
SOMEWHAT GOOD4-7
Think about adding some other characters to your password
VERY POORLess than 4
Time to make a new password
Tips for a VERY STRONG password
• Always use a mix of letters and numbers• Use a mix of UPPER and lower case letters• Use characters that are not letters or number
such as =!$#• Always use a password that contains 6 letters
or more• Create acronyms
(a word that is created by taking the first letter of a sequence of words)
Individual Project
Create a secure password
1. Think of a line from a song and write it down.2. Create an acronym from the first letter of each
word in the line.3. Change at lease one letter (not the first) to a
capital letter.4. Add a non-number, non-letter character, or a
substitute a ! For an I, $ for an s, etc.5. Add a two or three digit number.
Individual ProjectCreate a secure password
1. Think of the name of someone you admire and write it down.
2. Create a four-letter acronym from the first two letters of their first and last name.
3. Change at least one letter (not the first) to a capital letter.
4. Add a non-number, non-letter character or substitute a ! for an I, $ for an s, etc.
5. Mix in two numbers taken from your age. Don’t put these numbers next to each other.