In today’s world password has been the most important method to secure ourselves from fraud and other scams. Even though some of the people does not use password to secure the device or files. Some of them use default passwords like “abc$1234” or “admin”, etc which find it easy to remember. The use of strong password with minimum 16 characters is advised. We will see how password were used, how they are used currently, what are the threats of weak password usage, how to avoid those risks and to implement new methods of password policy.

Keywords : Password, Password Attack Techniques, Attack Tools Used, One-Time Password (OTP) and Biometrics.