Cyber security is a topic for tech experts, sure, but every layperson can also do his or her part in an area of cyber security that isn't so hard to understand: safe passwords. Using an easy to remember password doesn't seem like a big deal until finding out that a popular hacking ...
Celebrating children's or partners' nicknames in login data, on the other hand, is again particularly popular in Germany: here, more than one in ten (11 percent) use them for their internet passwords. The British are much more discreet about using nicknames of those close to them, at two...
From our analysis, we see that the most popular year was 2010, with nearly 10 million versions of this year used in passwords. The second-most popular used year was 1987 at 8.4 million, and the third was 1991 at nearly 8.3 million. Looking at the graph in total, there’s a steady in...
While passwords are a very popular account security tool, they aren’t necessarily the safest option. That’s especially the case if a user creates a weak password, reuses it, and stores its plaintext copy somewhere online. That’s why using a password manager, biometric data (which has its...
Most popular passwords of Ashley Madison users coincide with the list of the easiest passwords in the world. Memorize these passwords, and never use them!
Top 10000 most common passwords used on the Internet: 91% of all profile passwords sampled all appear on the list of just the top 1000 passwords.
PayPal Editorial Staff 16 August 2023 4 mins read From an email promising an extravagant prize to an enticing online offer that seems too good to be true, scams have become an unfortunate reality as we spend more time online. It doesn’t help that many of them are more sophisticated and ...
Most popular corporate passwords Take a quick look below and you’ll see that the most common passwords people use at work aren’t all that different from the ones they use in their personal lives. It just goes to show that, at the end of the day, people are people – no matter ...
NordPass, the password management tool, released its list of the 200 most common passwords in 2022— and people are still using notoriously weak passwords.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - Rimsha Ashraf Secure Your Data and Protect Your Passwords with the 10 Best Password Managers of 2024Gone are the days when a simple, easily memorable password was sufficient. Increasing online personal and financial information has necessitated solid passwords and secure...