We've all more or less gone through registering an account on a website: either you registered an e-mail, or you opened an account on a social network, maybe even shopped on the Internet, for which you again had to go through the process of creating an account. In any case, whatever happened, registering an account at any location requires - defining a password. And it is not impossible that, at the moment when the system asked you to define one, reluctant to think about the combination of numbers and letters (not to mention special characters), you entered something simple - "password".
You are not the only one. And the password "password", according to SpashGuide, an American company, takes the first position in the top 25 worst passwords ever and is one of those that hackers abuse. Second on the list is a password of the form "123.456".
Here are the top ten worst passwords you should avoid:
1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. QWERTY
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
These are the passwords that fraudsters most often use if they want to break into user accounts.
SplashData states that passwords must be more complex, that they must contain a combination of letters, numbers and special characters. The password should not be less than eight characters. When creating a password, the site itself can help you - many of them actually suggest whether the password you've chosen is good enough. Half-listen when the system says that you have defined a weak password.
And finally - you should use different passwords for different websites and - don't write passwords down on pieces of paper.
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