Surya Prakash Rao

Surya Prakash Rao
Receiving Gold Medal in Public Relations from the then Governor Sri N.D.Tiwari

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Are you using ‘123456’ as your password?... …Then you should be scared of listening this!



Are you using ‘123456’ as your password?...
…Then you should be scared of listening this!
 - R.Surya Prakash Rao
Yeah! It is true!! If you are using ‘123456’ as your password to log in to your account, you should be scared of listening this.
“Splash Data”, a company that makes password management and productivity apps, released the list of most commonly used passwords for the 3rd consecutive year 2013. The data revealed that the passwords ‘123456’ and ‘password’ are the most commonly used passwords on the internet. Users of these passwords are most likely to be the victims of hacking. SplashData’s list of most commonly used passwords shows that many people, in spite of many hacking incidents being taken place at major sites, including Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, continue to put themselves in risk by using these passwords. It may be noted that these passwords are easily guessable and weak in nature. These are considered worst passwords.
The users of these passwords have to be aware of the risk of using these passwords and take simple steps to protect them selves, by changing password. They have to think of the terrific situation of their stolen identity because of a stolen password.
Here is the list of most commonly used and easily guessable and hacking prone passwords of 2012 and 2013.
Rank
2012
2013
1
password
123456
2
123456
password
3
12345678
12345678
4
abc123
qwerty
5
qwerty
abc123
6
monkey
123456789
7
letmein
111111
8
dragon
1234567
9
111111
iloveyou
10
baseball
adobe123
11
iloveyou
123123
12
trustno1
admin
13
1234567
1234567890
14
sunshine
letmein
15
master
photoshop
16
123123
1234
17
welcome
monkey
18
shadow
shadow
19
ashley
sunshine
20
football
12345
21
jesus
password1
22
michael
princess
23
ninja
azerty
24
mustang
trustno1
25
password1
000000