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Page 1: Username Usage and Password Security. Username Usage

Username Usage and Password Security

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Username Usage

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Attracting Negative Attention

• InYoFace• Badboy2U• Lookin4Luv• IMAHottie• FatMama• suPaFlirt

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Revealing Information

• Tom_Evans34• Missy-13

• AndyKarateKid• ViolinGurl• restlinmatch

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Good or Bad?• I8sushi2• Soccerstar• Puppygirl234• keKe1995• Bookworm• 2BorNot2b• Choco-holic• CapitlOfens

• AmrcanIdol2• BellaIsabella• DarkAngel666• Karla-Love-1996• SimplyMe• gun4hiRe• babyfaceLA• Watup?

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Group 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

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Password Security

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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

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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.

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Check Your Password

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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

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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

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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)

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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.

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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.