The year is ending and with the arrival of Christmas, Christmas carols and Christmas carols, articles with the last name "...2020" begin to rain, so, as we did not want to be outdone, we bring you the top of the most 'bad' passwords. 'used from this year (this phrase reminds me of a song 'How good so bad').
A few days ago NordPass, which for those who don't know is a password manager from the NordVPN cybersecurity team, one of the most famous and respected VPN services in the world, released a report with the 200 worst passwords of 2020.
According to NordPass, the list details how many times a password has been exposed, used and how long it would take to crack it. The star of this year as of 2019 has been 123456 followed by her cousin 123456789, surely used for password services with a minimum of 8 digits. As a surprise has been the appearance in the top 3 of picture1 and senha in the top 10, whose meaning is password in Portuguese.
If you are a fan of 123456 we give you some tips for creating a password with a decent level of security.
Tip 1: Avoid using combinations of numbers or strings of adjacent keyboard shortcuts. For example “password”, “password”, “qwerty” or “123456”
Tip 2: Avoid setting your password as any personal information that is easy to decipher, such as your birthday, year of birth, your mother's name, the name of your street, or your dog's name. It is information that can be located very easily and hackers know it.
Tip 3: Create a strong password, no less than 12 characters, even more if you can. Use combinations of upper and lower case letters, symbols and numbers to make it more secure.
Tip 4: Change your password every 90 days. With this I am not telling you to change all the passwords for everything, but at least the one for your email account, the Wi-Fi network and the one for access to your bank details.
We hope that more than one of you will think about changing your password after reading the article, 123456 is no longer cool and although it is still a trend, as we have seen, it leaves your level of cybersecurity as safe as the lock on a children's piggy bank. The funniest thing is that we look for easy-to-remember numerical passwords, but then, the pattern on the cell phone looks like it was drawn by a DJ rapping on his mixing deck.
