Passwords and authentication

Which of the following makes for a stronger password?

• Using a word from the dictionary

• Using at least 8 characters

• Using my pet's name

• Using my birthday

What should never be used in your password?

• My name

• My birthday

• My address

• All of the above

A longer password is generally stronger than a shorter one?

• True

• False

What could happen if someone knows your password?

• Login to my accounts online
• Pretend to be me online and do things I wouldn't do
• Find out things about me that I don't want other people to know
• All of the above

What is a dictionary attack?

• Where a program works though a list of passwords to try and guess yours.

• Where a program tries a sequence of characters until it guesses your password

• Where you injure a dictionary

• A program that steals your password as you enter it.

What makes a password secure?

• It just needs to be long - more than 16 characters at least

• A mixture of letters, numbers and symbols

• Writing a normal word in a funny way like P4ssw0rd

• Not telling anyone it.

Some secure passwords can be easily guessed because...

• Hackers are very clever people

• They are in a password database already

This is where your username and password are are guessed on one service and these are then used to log in to lots of other services

• Credential stuffing

• Packet stuffing

• Authentication stuffing

• Turkey stuffing

Two factor authentication is where...

• You need something else, as well as your password to log in to a service.

• Where your password involves a maths problem.

• A type of division

• You use your fingerprint to login rather than your password