Posted on 12/20/2017 1:24:01 AM PST by x1stcav
Also making the Top 10 dumbest passwords this year are Password, 12345678, qwerty and perhaps the favorite of those with limited recall 12345, according to a California tech company.12345, eh. Thats the stupidest kind of password Ive ever heard of in my life; the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage. (Apologies to Mel Brooks.)
...wonder how many nitwits used
Hillary16....and still have it. LOL
I have it on pretty good authority that Santa is bringing me a 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi 128GB - Gold (2015), for Christmas. :)
cut and paste same story appears each year. Aren’t there any new bad passwords?
Someone I know always uses ‘coffeebean,’ for all his password needs. And when they make him change it, he changes it to coffeebean1, coffeebean2, etc. Been doing that for years. I keep warning him. Won’t listen to me. It’s particularly bad when he uses them or one of the variants for his bank accounts.
Podesta123
there are programs that can reject these passwords. We all may have seen where your password is rejected if not long enough and there are no numbers and special symbols. You cannot reuse any of your previous , recent passwords.
Arent there any new bad passwords?
The newest is rotten, lousy, stinking password.
Looks like passwords aren’t very secret if they know what they all are
You can have the strongest password possible but here’s a warning to all you Facebook (and its peers) fans:
Have you seen those cute chain posts that have a list of seemingly innocent questions like “name your home town,” “your year of graduation,” “favorite color” ...
Innocent fun, right? Well some of those questions and the answers you post can either answer or give a direct clue to the answer of the standard challenge questions used for password resets! So much for that strong password if it can be breached via the “forgot password” link.
Personally, I always set wrong answers to those questions as an added security measure. The trick, though, is remembering what was the wrong answer I gave. :)
Actually your phrase “The newest is rotten, lousy, stinking password.” would take tens of centuries to brute force break and is a great example of a passphrase versus a password. Longer is better, and spaces , commas, and periods make it less likely to be broken. Great Job
I have several passwords I use all the time. If it is a site that someone guessing my password can do little harm I use the same password (but may use different username).
For places I do care about (on line banking) I use a different more complicated password and different username. I do however keep a list in case I forget.
There really has to be an easier way to secure our on line accounts but I don’t know what it is.
Of course a user can do all the right things and then the account itself is hacked - the bottom line - online data is not really secure
How about “Speak friend, and enter” from LOTR?
Might as well be “Type password, and enter” when the password is “password”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgHCM68KkPY
They should be strong, i.e. “dR@!N_th3_sw@MP_45$”
Obscure favorite lines from a movie you've enjoyed, substituting characters with numerals; adding spaces where needed can frustrate even the most sophisticated bots and algorithms. Be creative and imaginative
It's not as difficult as it initially appears especially over time. You'll get good at raising your personal security posture!
I have to say I use the 123456 method for non vital websites. Who cares if someone gets into my phone or taps into my itunes? God forbid they can hack my facebook account - where everything is public anyway!
Or, they can just use the one that you gave them.
That occurred to me.But the one I put in was one of many that I use and was one that I only use for a website that's very unimportant to me.
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