Thursday, September 21, 2017

3817 - Passwords


Here's another trip down password memory lane...

Here’s how the top 25 passwords of 2016 look, in order of most popular to least. If you spot yours, change it. Change it now.  ARTICLE
    1. 123456
    2. 123456789
    3. qwerty
    4. 12345678
    5. 111111
    6. 1234567890
    7. 1234567
    8. password
    9. 123123
    10. 987654321
    11. qwertyuiop
    12. mynoob
    13. 123321
    14. 666666
    15. 18atcskd2w
    16. 7777777
    17. 1q2w3e4r
    18. 654321
    19. 555555
    20. 3rjs1la7qe
    21. google
    22. 1q2w3e4r5t
    23. 123qwe
    24. zxcvbnm
    25. 1q2w3e

Look at #15. How the heck could that make the list?  ARTICLE  Apparently when spammers create thousands of accounts, they may use the same password for all the accounts. So when someone dumps all of a systems passwords the spammers one and only password for all their accounts will wind up on a top 25 list.

So what's the latest on passwords? Here's an ARTICLE with a 6 panel cartoon that explains a new way to do passwords.

The takeaway from all this is long passwords are better than short complicated passwords. That's if your system let's you enter a long password.

6 comments:

eViL pOp TaRt said...

Thank you, Mike. This can help some people with the elusive password security problem.

John A Hill said...

I hate it when I have to change passwords!

Leroy said...

Using any of those is asking for trouble.

Cloudia said...

Thanks Mike

allenwoodhaven said...

Interesting. I'd prefer no passwords but realize that would be a disaster.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

this was interesting. I understand the need but hate passwords and remembering them. hate passwords!