You may have heard about those hackers who managed to get into Slovakia’s National Security Bureau about five years ago. Always been abbreviated as NBU, it has tons of information stored on it, so protection of such website is especially important. However, this website was an easy hack because the login/password of NBU was simply nbusr/nbusr123!
No matter that all this was five years ago, people continue to create and use bad passwords. According to millions of stolen passwords that have been published by hackers on the Internet, most of them include sequential numbers, like 54321, or classic words or phrases, such as ‘monkey’ or ‘letmein’. According to a data of password management app maker SplashData, here is a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011:
1. password; 2. 123456; 3. 12345678; 4. qwerty; 5. abc123; 6. monkey; 7. 1234567; 8. letmein; 9. trustno1; 10.dragon; 11. baseball; 12. 111111; 13. iloveyou; 14. master; 15. sunshine; 16. Ashley; 17. bailey; 18. passw0rd;19. shadow; 20. 123123; 21. 654321; 22. superman; 23. qazwsx; 24. Michael; 25. football.
In order to make a strong password, you must choose unique one which will never come into hacker’s mind. Besides, make sure you use different passwords everywhere to avoid being hacked on several websites at the same time. Security experts also recommend changing passwords and never share them with others.
Source: pcmag.com
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