If any of your passwords are on this list, then
shame on you -- and go change them now.
SplashData,
which makes password management applications, has released its annual
"Worst Passwords" list compiled from common passwords that are posted
by hackers. The top three -- "password," "123456," and "12345678″ -- have not changed since last year. New ones include
"jesus," "ninja," "mustang,"
"password1," and "welcome." Other passwords have moved up
and down on the list.
The
most surprising addition is probably "welcome."
"That
means people are not even changing default passwords," CEO Morgan Slain told
TIME Tech. "It doesn't take that much time to make a new password."
You
should have different passwords for all of your accounts. To make it easier to
remember them all, Slain suggests thinking about passwords as
"passphrases." For instance, use a phrase like "dog eats
bone" and add underscores, dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to
satisfy the special character requirement: "dog_eats_bone!"
Here's the full list:
1.
password
2,
123456
3.
12345678
4.
abc123
5.
qwerty
6.
monkey
7.
letmein
8. dragon
9.
111111
10.
baseball
11.
iloveyou
12.
trustno1
13.
1234567
14.
sunshine
15.
master
16.
123123
17.
welcome
18.
shadow
19.
ashley
20.
football
21.
jesus
22.
michael
23.
ninja
24.
mustang
25.
password1
P.S : This article is taken from TIME
