Thursday, 5 December 2013

10 Most Popular Dumb Passwords People Are Still Using

10 Most Popular Dumb Passwords People Are Still Using


A team of security researchers just stumbled across a massive cache of two million login credentials for sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, and ADP payroll. Shockingly, a large number of the passwords were overwhelmingly dumb. Like "123456" dumb.
Guys. We've been over this again and again and again and again. It's a really bad idea to choose something obvious-like "123456"-for your password. Hackers read these security research reports, too, and they know how stupidly popular these stupid passwords are. You might as well give them a little bit of a challenge by crafting something clever10o.
For the record, these are the top ten most popular passwords in the newly discovered database:
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