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The most hacked accounts use passwords like - Iloveyou, 12345 and princess
That doesn’t seem to prevent people from millions of people from using passwords such as “12345”…
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The top 25 worst passwords of 2018 based on 5 million leaked passwords on the internet
1. 123456 (Rank unchanged from last year) 2. password (Unchanged) 3. 123456789 (…
Antonio Villas-Boas
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The biggest password flubs of 2019, from Facebook's stolen hard drives to Lisa Kudrow's Instagram
Multibillion-dollar tech giants like Facebook, Google, and WeWork made the list for security breach…
Aaron Holmes
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17 of the weakest passwords used on Ashley Madison
Avast looked at the first million passwords in the Ashley Madison database to determine which ones …
Maya Kosoff
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Here Are The 25 Worst Passwords You Can Use
Spiderlab reported that "there were more terrible passwords than excellent ones, more bad passwords…
Michael Kelley
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If Your Password Is On This List, You Should Change It Immediately
To keep your passwords secure, you definitely shouldn't use any of the phrases on SplashData's list…
Maya Kosoff
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Make Sure You Aren't Using One Of The 'Worst Passwords Of 2013'
Use passwords of eight characters or more with mixed types of characters. But even passwords with c…
Kyle Russell
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This website shows how long it would take for a hacker to break your password
The amount of characters used often makes a password stronger. An infographic on the site shows hav…
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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A hacker told me how to make a super strong password I can actually remember
As Muhl explained, John works off dictionary lists - massive text files you can find on any number …
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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'Red-Haired Women Tend To Choose The Best Passwords And Men With Bushy Beards Or Unkempt Hair, The Worst'
Those slides reference this archive of password research, but it is not clear which study in the ar…
Jim Edwards
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If your password was affected by the LinkedIn hack, here's what you should change it to
As Muhl explained, John works off dictionary lists - massive text files you can find on any number …
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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I can't remember any of my passwords and that's perfectly fine
The two main apps most people use are 1Password and LastPass, which operate in similar ways. These …
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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'Samsung' most commonly-used passwords in 2021: Study
Samsung, or rather "samsung" with a lowercase S, is one of the most commonly used passwords in at l…
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What to do if your Yahoo account was one of the 3 billion hacked
Every Yahoo account was hacked. The hack was already one of the worst in history. Yahoo previously …
Emma Fierberg
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Here's The Odd Reason You Sometimes Can't Use The Letters 'Q' And 'Z' In Passwords
There's no specific reason as to why older phones omitted those two letters, but some speculate tha…
Lisa Eadicicco
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The DNC used incredibly weak passwords like 'obamain08'
If the organization was using a password like "obamain08," it would have good company among some of…
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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Are You Suffering From Lazy Password Syndrome? Here Are 7 Ways To Fight It
Technology is meant to make life easier for us, protect our data and ensure the privacy of personal…
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Hackers stole almost 70 million customer passwords from Dropbox after an employee reused a password
So does this mean that if you had a Dropbox account in 2012, hackers now have your password? It's u…
Rob Price
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How to ensure security while working from home in lockdown period
While the work from home (WFH) culture is not new, this is the first time that companies across …
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How to change your Wi-Fi password and improve the security of your internet network
You can change your Wi-Fi password by accessing your router's configuration page through your brows…