Wednesday, 22 January 2014

25 Worst Passwords of 2013

computer security
How many of us know about the password value, type etc. As per splash data 2013 very less people know about computer passwords. Nowadays we hear a lot about cyber crime, for example all money has been transferred from one account to another without consent of account owner. It happens because you give a chance to that cyber thief to steal your money and 90% it is because of PASSWORD.

Our laziness has been seen in 2013 that how we do care about the passwords, see a list of 25 worst-

1. 123456

2. password

3. 12345678

4. qwerty

5. abc123

6. 123456789

7. 111111

8. 1234567

9. iloveyou

10. adobe123

11. 123123

12. admin

13. 1234567890

14. letmein

15. photoshop

16. 1234

17. monkey

18. shadow

19. sunshine

20. 12345

21. password1

22. princess

23. azerty

24. trustno1

25. 000000

These all passwords are very easy to crack, a hacker can easily break the password and steal your valuable information.

Some tips for passwords-

  • Never use your name a a password for example if you are Mike then do not create a password as
  • mike1234, mike0000, mike0987 etc. 
  • Use Upper and Lower Case in your password combination
  • Use Special Characters
  • Change your password every week, fortnight.
  • The best practice of password is for Mike, use the name as reverse with special characters and numbers. to remember the number you may use your birth date in reversal format as yymmdd See the example below- EkiM#851230

This is just an example of creating a password which does not mean you have to create one for you as same as it is, make one which can be remember by you.

Finally, be serious for your passwords now since if user of internet are increasing day by day the people who search for a loop hole in a section are also increasing. 

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