Young people tend to use horribly simple passwords

ByBinaryCoco

There are images that young people seems to have high IT literacy and password management, but in reality older people set difficult passwords and young people use surprisingly easy passwords There is a trend, Yahoo! It is understood from the password survey of 70 million cases used in.

Young people pick terrible passwords compared to their elders - Neowin

"Password" is almost the only thing that protects important information on the net from attackers. However, even if it is e-mail or bank account password, many people use a simple password.Frequently used password top 500According to the frequency of use such as the number 4 digit which is hardly felt and the word which can be easily thought, the first place is "123456", the second place is "password", the third place is "12345678", the fourth place is "1234" It is known that it is high.

ByHardeep.singh

Joseph Bonneau, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, is a leading search service Yahoo! We received information from Mr. Kimura and investigated 70 million passwords. As a result, it turned out that the password became complicated as the age of the user increased. Specifically, the complexity is almost the same between the ages of 13 and 34, but it becomes remarkably complicated from the age of 35 to 44, and it becomes increasingly complicated from 45 years old to 54 years old and 55 years old and over.

ByRon Bennetts

Bonneau also examined the strength of the password by language. Although there was no difference in most languages, those who set the base language to German or Korean tend to use more complex passwords than average, while in Indonesian a remarkably simple password It was used. About this difference, Bonneau did not explain.

Studies also showed that women are using passwords that are harder than men. Even those who have registered credit card information on the site also found that the robustness of the password was slightly higher, and the attacker could easily access the stolen credit card information.

ByImages_of_Money

There seems to be a person who makes a password short and easy to understand in case of emergency, but in case of emergency"ID Manager" which can manage ID and password collectivelyYa"LoginCode"It is better to make it as easy as possible to input as complex a password as possible using software such as.