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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
If your password is on this list - change it now
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
People worry themselves sick about computer security but then end up doing something stupid that makes the firewall and other security devices useless.
PC Magazine recently published a list of the 10 most common passwords. I’ll link to that article here.
If your password makes the top 10 list stop what you’re doing and change it.
The top password was - drum roll - password. Yeap. The second most popular was 123456.
You would not have to be a brilliant hacker to make your way past passwords like this. Here’s a good start - use both letters and numbers and make sure that the password isn’t a word at all. So, for instance, this would be a decent password: X19ayzm24
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