Friday, November 30, 2012

Most Popular Passwords

With the ability to manage banking, pay bills, apply for jobs, and network online, internet users these days have a lot of user-ids and passwords to remember. These passwords are intended to provide a level of safety not guaranteed with online transactions. Passwords should be unique to you, not something generic. Passwords are best with 8 or more characters, capitalization, and numerials. Do you have any passwords that appear on this list? Make sure you change those passwords to something more challenging to guess! Check out Mashable's post on the Top 25 Passwords for more ideas on how to best protect your identity on the internet http://mashable.com/2012/10/23/worst-passwords/


Top 25 List -
1. password

2, 123456
3. 12345678
4. abc123
5. qwerty
6. monkey
7. letmein
8. dragon
9. 111111
10. baseball
11. iloveyou
12. trustno1
13. 1234567
14. sunshine
15. master
16. 123123
17. welcome
18. shadow
19. ashley
20. football
21. jesus
22. michael
23. ninja
24. mustang
25. password1

~JH

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