Using characters beyond just lowercase letters, adding in uppercase, symbols and numbers, can significantly increase a password’s security.

For insight, a 12-character password with three uppercase letters, four lowercase letters, two numbers, and three special characters will have 475,920,314,814,253,376,475,136 combinations. 2.

Instead they perpetuate broken mythologies like “you need upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols to be a good password” (which is a myth; the fact is that four completely non-related ...