The Power of Passwords

Fascinating conversation about passwords this week.

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Look for yourself if your password to any of your logins matches these :

This is the list of the top 20 most common passwords. If any of yours are included, it might be time to think about changing them.

1. 123456

2. admin

3. 12345678

4. 123456789

5. 1234

6. 12345

7. password

8. 123

9. Aa123456

10. 1234567890

11. UNKNOWN

12. 1234567

13. 123123

14. 111111

15. Password

16. 12345678910

17. 000000

18. Admin123

19. ********

20. user

Wondering what these are? – this is the Top 20 commonly used passwords. Infact the top one is used around 4.5 million times and it takes less than 20 seconds for the hacker to crack it. (source : we forum.org)

While the cyber experts can educate you on the passwords, the complexity, pros and cons, etc, we will see how…