As technology has become more ubiquitous in our everyday lives, so to has the proliferation of cyber-crime in the form of malware, ransomware, and other large scale data breaches.
This application uses HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap 4, and JavaScript to create a strong, unique password.
When the "Generate" button is pushed, the program will create an array of arrays based on choices for upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and/or special characters.
Then the password is created based on the length of the password selected.
(All javascript alert/confirm are validated to ensure proper selection is made by the end-user.)
Finally, the newly generated password is presented to the end-user through the viewport.
Try the Password Generator.
Cyber-crime Consequences[1]
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💰 Financial Costs 💰
- compensating affected customers 💸
- incident response to investigate breach 💸
- investment in new security measures 💸
- legal fees 💸
- regulatory penalties 💸
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👊 Reputational Damage 👊
- loss of customers 👎
- bad word of mouth 👎
- long-lasting 👎
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⚠️ Operational Downtime⚠️ - operations disrupted 🚫
- contain and investigate breach 🚫
- may be completely shut down 🚫
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👮 Legal Action 👮
- individuals seek legal action to claim compensation 💼
- class action lawsuits 💼
- more breaches = more litigation 💼
| Tip | Explanation[2] |
|---|---|
| LONG | the longer the better, but at least 10 characters long |
| RANDOM | if your letter combinations are not in the dictionary, they are not published |
| VARIETY | mix up special symbols and numbers with both capital and lower case letters |
| NON-OBVIOUS | not information that is easily discoverable -- date of birth, anniversary, address, high school, etc. |
| UNIQUE | use one password for each account |
| MANAGER | use a service that auto-generates and stores strong passwords on your behalf in one centralized, encrypted location that only you can access with the master password |
| PRIVATE | don't share your password with anyone else |
| ROTATE | the more sensitive information is, the more often you should change your password |
HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The goals are to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia and other new features; to keep the language both easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices; and to remain backward compatible to older software. Many new symantec features are included.
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Content and design created by 💚 Eric D. Torres 💚.
The author can be reached at etorresnotary@gmail.com.
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