Frequently used password top 10

According to the results of the survey conducted in the UK, it is "password" used not only in the net service but everywhere, the top ten of the frequently used passwords are quite interesting phrases lining up. Person who owns your password should change immediately in this.

So, let's see from 10th place in order.
Top 10 Most Common Passwords - Modern Life Is Rubbish

10. 'thomas' (0.99 ‰)

9. 'arsenal' (1.11 ‰)

8. 'monkey' (1.33 ‰)

7. 'charlie' (1.39 ‰)

6. 'qwerty' (1.41 ‰)

5. '123456' (1.63 ‰)

4. 'letmein' (1.76 ‰)

3. 'liverpool' (1.82 ‰)

2. 'password' (3.780 ‰)

1. '123' (3.784 ‰)

Better or bad are those like British, but it is amazing at the top "123" and the second place "password" .... Where there are place names, sports team names, people names, etc. Will phrases representing the same kind of feeling coming up even in Japan be coming up?

If you are a person who is familiar with passwords and is careful about security, you might think that "123, it is impossible, it's a story!", But at a very high percentage using a password close to Kole There are a lot of people there. Recently I find many phrases in my favorite letters written in English letters and attaching birth date to it. At first glance it is too long and it seems that it is hard to break through, but people who generate passwords of this pattern are very likely to include that phrase in the mail address of mobile phones, because the phrase is favorite It is much.

In addition, it is an article that I wrote in the past because it may become a trigger to let passwords change if showing a kore to an ordinary person who can not realize how dangerous it is if a password is weak.

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Also, it is effective to ask them to use weaknesses of their passwords in front of you.

GIGAZINE - "Password checker" to test the strength of the password

The best thing is to use a completely random password, but I can not remember it when that happens. Therefore, it is certain that you will remember one password you remember and the rest in software.

Password management tool ID Manager

RoboForm: password management, form filling, password generation, automatic login

In other words, it seems to memorize only the password for activating the software, and call it from software at any time as needed from the software. Of course, do not forget to backup.