#BEST WPA2 WORDLIST 2020 PASSWORD#
That really is a lot and many of them are old accounts.ġ1% use the same password across ALL of their accounts.Ĥ9% re-use their passwords only for ‘non-sensitive’ accounts.Ĥ0% reckon they never reuse their passwords. How many accounts does the average person have?ġ30. Which age range re-used passwords the most? The answer may surprise you… however 61% used the passwords across multiple sites.89% of consumers felt secure with their current password management and use habits.Dashlane recently surveyed 1,000 people about their security habits and found some interesting stats: Password fatigue is a real thing and it leads to password security that is lacking. Nonetheless, Too many employees “still have poor password hygiene that weakens the overall security posture of their company,” according to the 3 rd Annual Global Password Security Report (2019) from LogMeIn. And a comparison to SplashData’s 2018 list shows not much change year over year.Ĭould we one day see a “passwordless future.”?īusinesses are increasing the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) services to bolster security. Here are SplashData’s most popular and therefore least secure passwords of 2019.Ĭompare this with other password lists from NordPass and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center show very similar findings. For the best part of a decade simple passwords like these on the list have been found as the most commonly used in all data breaches. The problem with the list is that there’s no real change happening year-on-year with the list. Or maybe the people using that password are talking about Netflix? Who would know. Some other highlights of the most common passwords 2020 list include:Ĭlearly there’s a lot of romantics out there. SplashData’s list is based on the company’s analysis of millions of passwords leaked on the internet. And its longer cousin comes in at number 2 ‘123456789’ according to SplashData’s top 25 most common passwords. No, the champion of passwords is in fact ‘123456’. lease secure) password EVERY year since 2013? No it’s not ‘password’, that comes in at number 4. Check out what happened on the day Disney+ launched, all because so many people re-used their passwords.
Unique passwords are a good idea because if one online system gets compromised, you won’t be granting easy access to another service. “Use a Password Manager to make the job easier!” we said… “No”, says just about everyone. We’ve written about plenty of security-related topics in this blog and nothing makes people’s eyes roll more than the need for unique passwords across all of your online accounts. Passwords really are just a nuisance – for you and Cybersecurity professionals.
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