Each year, analysts at various Internet security companies release lists of the most used passwords.
ADVERTISEMENT. The passwords that are on these lists may act as a warning for any Internet and electronic device user.
Some common passwords have been used for ages and they continue to be used.
NordPass released a list of top 200 common passwords last month.
The analysis extracted passwords from a 4.3TB database that has been fed with data from publicly available sources.
You may wonder about some other passwords that you expected to be higher on the list.
All of these passwords have in common that brute force cracking runs take less than 12 seconds to find these passwords.
Hasso Plattner Institut: most popular German passwords.
The Hasso Plattner Institut releases its list of the most popular leaked passwords in Germany each year.
These passwords are not particularly difficult to crack either.
Most of the popular leaked passwords have one thing in common: they are easy to remember and to type.
Computer and electronic device users who don't use password managers have a tendency of selecting weaker passwords.
It is easier for analysts to brute force weak passwords or use dictionaries to identify previously leaked cleartext password.
The result needs to be put into relation to the entire list of passwords.
Some passwords managers are available on nearly any platform.
You can't run password managers on Smart TVs, which makes typing streaming service account passwords that are secure a nuisance.
Still, with a password manager, you may create unique strong passwords for any service.
Passkeys is an upcoming standard that won't replace passwords entirely, but in some places.
The most popular passwords of 2023 are easy to guess and crack.
The most popular passwords of 2023 are as easy to guess and reveal as the most popular passwords of previous years.
This Cyber News was published on www.ghacks.net. Publication date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 07:43:04 +0000