https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1275&p=18465#p18465
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Landman
Friday, 11 February 2005, 04:25 PM


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Torm, make sure all your passwords are at least 8 characters, and complex. but yet easy enough for you and you alone to remember. I would also keep an eye on updates, chances are the makers of the software are aware of the situation and are working to resolve the issue. keep it as up to date as possible with current updates. stay away from beta releases, release candidates and such as they have not been completely tested and could be causing more harm then good.

Password complexity is probably the most important. Hackers have software that they use to "brute force hack" websites. which is basically a program designed to fire passwords at a server untill it gains access. by adding numbers and punctuation to a password, you are making that softwares job all that much harder. 

a bad password example would be something like - landmanb
however I can make this password much more complex by simply adding numbers - l4ndm4nb
I can further it by capitalizing each letter before the number - L4ndM4nb
add some other non alpha numeric character - L4nd$M4nb

keep in mind it would still be vulnerable to a brute force hack, however with the proper encryption, they would need a bunch of computers all working together on the algorythm for such a long period of time, an Administrator would probably notice the failed attempts and act on it.