Apple and other like-minded businesses are now willing to adopt certain sets of standards that will pave the way to the demise of password. These initiatives stem from the necessity to provide more secure ways to protect information and achieve this without having to face the difficult challenge of having to rely on users to ensure this requirement as sometimes they are not serious about it. So, and in line with the tendency of the last years, there is one type of password that remains the most popular, and, also, the most hacked.
Dojo is a payment service provider that has released the findings of a study it commissioned to find out the most popular passwords used globally. When it came to hacking into more than 100,000 passwords that National Center for Counterintelligence and Security (NCSC) breached, it exhibited the passwords in over 30 groups, ranging from sports, colors, and cities.
Love and pet names are the top selected passwords.
The most breached categories of passwords, as well as the number of breached passwords that include a word or phrase from that category, are as follows:The most breached categories of passwords, as well as the number of breached passwords that include a word or phrase from that category, are as follows:
- Pet names/sweet terms: 4032.
- Names: 3,913.
- Animals: 2,112.
- Emotions: 1,917.
- Food: 1,662.
- Colors: 1,450.
- Profanities: 1,268.
- Stocks: 991.
- Relatives: 723.
- Car Brands: 606.
- City: 505.
- Brands: 477.
- Countries: 463.
- Sports: 457.
- Religions: 341.
- Hobbies: 314.
- Time: 313.
- Drinks: 268.
- Social Media Platforms: 2.5.3 Perceptions of the Relationship Between Social Assistance and Other Social Grants 253.
- Zodiac signs: 204.
The report discusses that passwords with the incorporation of such elements like pet names and affectionate terms are the ones that are cracked most frequently. These include words and phrases like – ‘love’, ‘baby’, ‘angel’, ‘sam’ = 313, ‘Anna’ = 300, ‘alec’ = 240. For the animal-themed hackable passwords “dog” and “cat” lead the list with 354 and 265, respectively.
Despite the fact that passwords revealed by Dojo are not really safe they still seem to be not as vulnerable as passwords revealed by the NordPass platform as the report of May 2022 shows. According to NordPass, up to 3TB of data were tested together with independent researchers to find out what passwords are the most popular worldwide, and even though it may sound like a joke, the most common password in the world is actually “password,” which was ranked first this year after “123456” ranked first two years in a row.
NordPass also has its own list, but according to it, Spain is also not far behind. Here it should be noted that 12th position is staked by the password ‘hello’ 15th position is staked by the password ‘tequiero’ 22nd position is staked by the password ‘realmadrid’. However there are many other pearls like “tupmadre”, “gemeliers” “mda” or “nomeacuerdo”. What is possible ladies and gentlemen is virtually limitless.
Bad Passwords: How to Select a Weak Password.
There is a yes and a no advised by security protocols as regards our password. While it is not a misconception, a reminder never hurts even if many people do not follow them.
Taking care of passwords instead.
Use a mixture of symbols, numbers, and both lower- and upper-case alphabetic characters.
Search for a password that is longer more than 8-12 characters.
Use multi-factor authentication.
Use a password manager.
Change your passwords periodically.
Commons mistakes when inventing passwords.
Never incorporate personal details in the passwords.
do not use short sequences of letters such as abc or of numbers such as 123.
Don’t share your password.
Never check the box to save your password for websites.
