Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar
Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar
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Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51134999
It is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.
The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay.
It’s not just a problem here – Australians, Americans and Germans also use “admin” more than any other password when accessing websites, apps and logging in to their computers. Around the world, “123456” emerges as the most popular.
If you're allowed to even use these passwords, there's something incredibly wrong with the system you're using. Many systems even have the top 10K used passwords on a blacklist, nevermind the fact that most of these wouldn't get past a standard 8-to-15 character limit.