| Password | Usage |
|---|---|
| 123456 password 12345678 qwerty 12345 123456789 football 1234 1234567 baseball welcome 1234567890 abc123 111111 1qaz2wsx dragon master monkey letmein login princess qwertyuiop solo password starwars |
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Another year has passed and users are still using horrible passwords! The table at right shows the most common passwords used and whether that particular password has gotten more or less popular.
So if you are trying to hack into someone’s account, go ahead and try something from the list at right and you might just get lucky. How do researchers know these are the most popular? Of course they come from the mass hack attacks that occur all too often.
Every single place you have a password needs to have a unique password. It should be at least eight characters and be a random mix of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation marks.
Of course it is hard to remember all those unique passwords and it can also be hard to come up with all those unique combinations. Thanks why I find the Roboform utility to be so valuable.
It generates passwords for me at whatever length I choose and with the mix of characters I choose. Then it remembers all of those passwords across all of my devices. Give it a try for free and make sure your accounts are safe!
2 and 24 appear to be the same password
Foster,
I have a password system that allows for a different password for every website that is easy to remember. I set up a phrase that is convertible. For example, “I like cats a lot” … this converts to “!1!k3c*ts*10t” (!= I, 1=L, *=A, 3=E, 0=O). Then I take the first three letters of the website, so my password to your site would be !1!k3c*ts*10tUNL. Every six months, I add a number to the end !1!k3c*ts*10tUNL1 etc.
While I do use password vaults — I’ve found that sometimes when the browsers are updated, the Vaults no longer function properly or at all. Firefox is notorious for this. Also, when logging in from mobile devices, this system makes it easy to remember a password.