May
8
Tip: Don’t use 123456.
Though cybersecurity and cyber fraud are frequent topics of interest, one cannot bring up the importance of solid passwords often enough. In that spirit, here’s wishing you a happy World Password Day.
Ready for some scary facts? According to a new report from LastPass, 91 percent of us agree that using the same password for everything is dangerous, but 66 percent of us still do it. Fifty-two percent of us haven’t changed our passwords in the last year. Even when we know that a brand we do business with online has suffered a breach, 52 percent of us don’t bother changing our password.
About three years ago, I listed the 10 most frequently used passwords. (Click here to read the post.) Here they are:
- 123456
- 123456789
- qwerty
- 12345678
- 111111
- 1234567890
- 1234567
- password
- 123123
- 987654321
If you wondered why we need a World Password Day, now you know.