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

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 ...

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.