What is your password? Is it “password”? Then it’s the worst one you got, yes today you will read 25 worst passwords of this year. No no! Last year’s 20 worst passwords were apart from this.
Before proceeding, a question arises: When a password is considered as worst or bad? Any guess? Let me tell you, there are couple of reasons for choosing a bad or lame password. First, you choose a simple one; for example “123456″ or “123abc” or “<yourname>” etc. Secondly, you choose a sequence which is pretty easy to guess; for instance: “qwerty” or “abcdef” etc.
Innocent or technology illiterate people do the above, they simple don’t know how to choose and set a good password. Anyways, below is the list of Top 25 Worst Passwords of 2011. See if you chose any of them?
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password
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123456
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12345678
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qwerty
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abc123
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monkey
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1234567
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letmein
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trustno1
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dragon
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baseball
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111111
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iloveyou
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master
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sunshine
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ashley
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bailey
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passw0rd
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shadow
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123123
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654321
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superman
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qazwsx
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michael
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football
I was just laughing why people set these stupid and silly passwords. Why they don’t realize that hackers can easily crack the above passwords and they can steal their personal information. You are advised to choose a better, valid and strong passwords. Add special characters and capital letters to it. Choose a strong password and stay safe.
via [Splash Data]
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