How difficult is your password to crack?

We’re all constantly being told that we need stronger and better passwords.      The reason is because hackers do what’s called a “brute force attack” to try and guess the password to gain access.

So how long would it take somebody to hack YOUR password?

Here’s a neat little calculator that you can run to see how long it would take somebody to crack your password.

https://howsecureismypassword.net/

This is one that’s a little more detailed, and is useful for crafting a new password:

http://www.passwordmeter.com/

Here’s another one that’s more difficult to use, but you don’t have to provide your actual password:

https://tmedweb.tulane.edu/content_open/bfcalc.php
 

You can then decide for yourself if that password is good enough.