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Password with upper-case can make your email account safer

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CIOL Bureau
10 Feb 2011 00:00 IST
Updated On 10 Feb 2011 23:13 IST

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LONDON, UK: Simply upper-casing your password can minimise a hacker's chance of finding out your account.

A six-letter password in lower-case text takes a hacker's computer just 10 minutes to crack. But make those letters upper-case and it takes 10 hours for it to randomly work out your password.

Also read: Firms warn staff of iPhone, iPad hacking

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Add numbers and/or symbols to your password and the hacker's computer has to work for 18 days.

Despite widespread warning, 50 percent of people choose a common word or simple key combination for their password, the Daily Mail reports.

The most used passwords are 123456, password, 12345678, qwerty and abc123.

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Also read: Hacking HTTP status codes

However, the security conscious among you may want to try this - choose a nine letter password that includes numbers and/or symbols as this would take a hacker's computer a staggering 44,530 years to break.

In December, media firm Gawker urged subscribers to change their passwords after its user database was hacked and more than 1.3 million passwords were stolen.

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The company, which runs a series of irreverent blogs on media and technology, warned that simple passwords could be vulnerable to attacks by hackers' computers.

Also read: Strong password not enough to protect 

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