Most account break-ins don’t involve genius hackers. They involve passwords like a pet’s name plus a birth year — guessed, leaked, or reused from another site that got breached. Here’s how to do better in about two minutes.
What makes a password strong?
- Length beats cleverness. A 16-character random password is far harder to crack than a short one full of symbols. Aim for 16+ characters for important accounts.
- Random beats personal. Names, birthdays, teams and song lyrics are all guessable. Random characters aren’t.
- Unique beats everything. One password per account. If a site leaks and you reused that password, every other account falls with it.
The 2-minute setup
- Open the free ViHub Password Generator and set the length to 16 or more, with letters, numbers and symbols on.
- Use that password for the account. It is generated in your browser — we never see it.
- Save it in a password manager (your browser’s built-in one counts). You remember one master password; the manager remembers the rest.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for email, banking and social accounts.
Common mistakes to drop
- Swapping letters for look-alikes (P@ssw0rd) — cracking tools know every one of those tricks.
- Changing one digit each time a site forces a reset (Summer2024 → Summer2025).
- Sharing passwords over chat or email, where they live forever.
That’s it: long, random, unique, manager-stored, 2FA on. Generate your next one right here.