The 25 most popular (and least secure) passwords in 2014
Gizmodo has an article on the 25 most popular passwords of 2014, based on compiling millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the year. Many of them are the same unsecure passwords that appeared on the 2013 list. Clearly the public is still going for “easy to remember” rather than “safe and secure”.
Here is the list:
- 123456
- password
- 12345
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 123456789
- 1234
- baseball
- dragon
- football
- 1234567
- monkey
- letmein
- abc123
- 111111
- mustang
- access
- shadow
- master
- michael
- superman
- 696969
- 123123
- batman
- trustno1
These passwords are a hackers dream. Many could be guessed in one try, and others would take no time to figure out using software that does “brute force” attacks (trying thousands of sequences of words and letters in minutes). To learn more about how to create passwords that are harder to crack, see Keeping Your Passwords Strong and Secure from the December 2013 issue of LAWPRO Magazine.
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