After a year marked by the theft of data from Yahoo, that affected along the 2016 more than 1.500 millions of accounts, many people chose to strengthen their password in order to avoid possible identity theft.
More and more platforms are required, when creating an account, passwords with high levels of security that include uppercase letters, some number or even some sign such as an exclamation, For example. Nevertheless, the vast majority of people use, as long as they are allowed, the usual passwords. Simple passwords, related to your personal or work life, the easiest to discover by hackers.
The ten most common passwords of 2016
With the aim of users making more effective passwords, the firm specialized in security Keeper has shown, through a new study, the 25 most common passwords of 2016. The fact that they are the most common, it also makes them the most vulnerable to hackers., who can hack passwords and access users' personal data with ease.
The firm, which recommends including different characters as capital letters, b, special numbers or symbols in passwords to make them more complicated to guess, has confirmed that, one more year, the most common password has been '123456'.
Among the ten most popular are also '123456789', 'qwerty', ‘12345678’, ‘111111’, ‘1234567890’, ‘1234567’, 'password', ‘123123’ and '987654321'. In fifteenth position highlights the password '18atcskd2w’ What, although it is apparently a password with medium security, is the key generated by bots that intend to spam forums or web pages.
How to protect your account with a good password
Among the tips of the firm to protect the account with a good password stands out, as we have explained above, use a variety of characters. I mean, passwords, to be safe, must have lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers and some special symbol such as, For example, a hyphen or exclamation mark.
The company also recommends not using any of the most common passwords or words that appear in the dictionary.. Thanks to this, hackers won't have it so easy to access the password. Last, Keeper is also committed to the use of reliable password creation programs, who will help users to have secure keys and difficult to discover by hackers.
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