Thursday, 5 February 2015

Posted by Tugas Akhir
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    Password is one of the important things in security. Therefore, the users of internet services such as social media and email, are required to use strong passwords and not easily predictable.

According to the company's data management passwords, SplashData, there are many passwords leaked last year. Of the 3.3 million that were analyzed, the majority are easily guessed passwords and insecure.

Most passwords are from North America and Western Europe. The results were assessed as no surprise, "123456" and "password" into two worst passwords in the past year.

Here's 25 worst passwords in 2014 based on data SplashData, as reported by Business Insider, Sunday (25/01/2015).

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345
4. 12345678
5. qwerty
6. 1234567890
7. 1234
8. baseball
9. dragon
10. football
11. 1234567
12. monkey
13. letmein
14. abc123
15. 111111
16. mustang
17. access
18. shadow
19. master
20. michael
21. Superman
22. 696 969
23. 123 123
24. Batman
25. trustno1

In order to keep your data safe, make sure not to use any of the above password. SplashData recommends using a password of eight characters or more in length, with various types of characters such as letters, numbers, and symbols.


You are also advised to use a different username and password for every website. In addition, security can be reinforced using a password manager to protect passwords.

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