23.2 Million People Used This Password, Did you?
A recent study by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has found that 23.2 million people are using the same password! Is your Password, “123456” If it is, there…
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A recent study by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has found that 23.2 million people are using the same password! Is your Password, “123456” If it is, there is a really good chance that you could be hacked!
The next most used password's are " Password" and “123456789,”. Some other hackable password's are, “1111111,” and “qwerty.” (Bottom row of the keyboard)
Here are some tips for creating a password that's less likely to get hacked,
Randomly replace letters with numbers (e.g. I Love The Coyote becomes Ilov3Th3C0y0t3 )
Pick a sentence and reduce it to first letters of each word only (e.g. “I Only Listen To Jeff And Aimee In The Mornings” becomes IOLTJAAITM)
Take a word and reverse spell it (e.g. DANGERDAVE becomes EVADREGNAD)
