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.
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6 comments:
Thank you, Mike. This can help some people with the elusive password security problem.
I hate it when I have to change passwords!
Using any of those is asking for trouble.
Thanks Mike
Interesting. I'd prefer no passwords but realize that would be a disaster.
this was interesting. I understand the need but hate passwords and remembering them. hate passwords!
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