Quick Tip: How to strengthen your password

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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Quick Tip: How to strengthen your password
Quick Tip: How to strengthen your passwordJason Knowles and the I-Team with the Quick Tip you can implement right now to strengthen your password.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The I-Team has learned there are new programs that hackers are using to gather emails from databases and email lists, then match them up to common passwords.

So, what you need to do right now is strengthen you password.

First, use multiple passwords. You can use apps to help you manage all of these passwords.

One of the biggest tips is to find a sentence from one of your favorite songs or a song lyric. Use that song lyric as your password, add spaces to it and multiple special characters.

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