Password Information and Assistance
Password Assistance
For your convenience we now offer you the ability to have up to 24
characters for your password.
Have you ever considered a passphrase? With 24 characters you can
now use a passphrase to access your account information. For
example: “lovemybank1”. Passphrases are easy to remember!
Please know that The Dart Bank will never send a message via email
asking that you verify or update account information and/or personal
information.
Choosing and Protecting Passwords
Passwords are a common form of authentication and are often the
only barrier between a user and your personal information. There are
several programs attackers can use to help guess or “crack”
passwords, but by choosing good passwords and keeping them
confidential, you can make it more difficult for an unauthorized person
to access your information.
Why do you need a password?
Think about the number of personal identification numbers (PINs),
passwords, or passphrases you use every day: getting money from
the ATM or using your debit card in a store, logging on to your
computer or email, signing in to an online bank account or shopping
cart…the list seems to just keep getting longer. Keeping track of all of
the number, letter, and word combinations may be frustrating at
times, and maybe you’ve wondered if all of the fuss is worth it. After
all, what attacker cares about your personal email account, right? Or
why would someone bother with your practically empty bank account
when there are others with much more money? Often, an attack is not
specifically about your account but about using the access to your
information to launch a larger attack. And while having someone gain
access to your personal email might not seem like much more than an
inconvenience and threat to your privacy, think of the implications of
an attacker gaining access to your social security number or your
medical records. One of the best ways to protect information or
physical property is to ensure that only authorized people have access
to it. Verifying that someone is the person they claim to be is the next
step, and this authentication process is even more important, and
more difficult, in the cyber world. Passwords are the most common
means of authentication, but if you don’t choose good passwords or
keep them confidential, they’re almost as ineffective as not having
any password at all. Many systems and services have been
successfully broken into due to the use of insecure and inadequate
passwords, and some viruses and worms have exploited systems by
guessing weak passwords.