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. That’s the stupidest kind of password I’ve 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.
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.
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. :)
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
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!
I dedicate this thread to John Podesta.
We have your emails John!
Before they guess the password on a server, they have to guess the username. My username is similar to mtghty.jo3!yung. They don’t even get close to it.
The most common usernames to appear in my invalid logon logs are administrator, root, terminal, pos and user.
F*ckingPassword