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The list of the most insecure computer passwords for e-mails and social networks' accounts has been published by The Telegraph recently. The word password is the leader of the TOP-25 rating. The combination of 123456 follows it. The password 12345678 won the third place as one of the most popular combination. Security experts are concerned about the situation and ask Internet users to choose their passwords more carefully. They call to abstain from using the same password for e-mail, Internet-banking and online services. Also they remind that it is required to change passwords as often as it is possible. IT specialists recommend to use a combination of letters and numbers in lower and upper cases that contains not less than eight symbols to make passwords more secure. Here is the list of the worst passwords as arranged by SplashData: 1. password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123 6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9. trustno1 10. dragon 11. baseball 12. 111111 13. iloveyou 14. master 15. sunshine 16. ashley 17. bailey 18. passw0rd 19. shadow 20. 123123 21. 654321 22. superman 23. qazwsx 24. michael 25. football
The list of the most insecure computer passwords for e-mails and social networks' accounts has been published by The Telegraph recently.
The word password is the leader of the TOP-25 rating. The combination of 123456 follows it. The password 12345678 won the third place as one of the most popular combination.
Security experts are concerned about the situation and ask Internet users to choose their passwords more carefully. They call to abstain from using the same password for e-mail, Internet-banking and online services. Also they remind that it is required to change passwords as often as it is possible. IT specialists recommend to use a combination of letters and numbers in lower and upper cases that contains not less than eight symbols to make passwords more secure.
Here is the list of the worst passwords as arranged by SplashData:
1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football