It would seem that every modern man, spending a large part of his life for the work with the computer and the Internet, should be aware that the security of its data primarily depends upon himself and those electronic passwords that it uses. To increase security, experts advise not get tired to use more sophisticated electronic passwords. However, as it turns out, people do not learn not only the mistakes of others, but even on its own.
Analyst firm SplashData on annual tradition analyzed millions of stolen passwords in 2014 and compiled a list of the 25 worst of them. They are so simple in the selection, which in fact are not password, and already known to give attackers access to the information not to be, it would seem to show to others. From the words of Mark Burnett, a specialist in the field of computer security, passwords, trapped in the list of the 25 worst in 2014, up 2.2 per cent of the total.
List of electronic worst passwords as follows:
123456
password
12345
12345678
qwerty
123456789
1234
baseball
dragon
football
1234567
monkey
letmein
abc123
111111
mustang
access
shadow
master
michael
superman
696969
123123
batman
trustno1
Company experts SplashData once again advised to increase the safety of your data to create passwords that consist of eight or more characters, it does not contain only letters, numbers and other characters available on the keyboard. In addition, it is strongly recommended not to use the same password on different sites.
If you can not remember multiple passwords, the security experts advise using a special password managers such as LastPass and SplashID. In this case, you do not have to remember many different passwords, will be sufficient to know only one that will provide access to the entire collection of used passwords. And, of course, you should understand that the password itself should be more complicated than just "123456".