With a recent report highlighting the most common passwords in 50 countries and how easy it is to crack them, ethical hackers suggest tricks for complete protection
The NordPass report showed that Krishna, Omsairam, Jaimatadi, Hanuman, Waheguru, Bigbasket, Linkedin and Iloveindia are some of the most common passwords in India
The first thing this writer did after speaking with experts for this article was to change her passwords and silently hope they are foolproof. If your password is any one of these – password, 12345, 123456, 123456789, 12345678–you might want to change it. These are the usual suspects, according to the 2021 NordPass’ Top 200 Most Common Passwords. NordPass, a password manager company, compiled this report in partnership with independent researchers specialsing in research of cybersecurity incidents. They evaluated a four TB-sized database that contains already leaked passwords. The report threw up interesting results. Krishna, Omsairam, Jaimatadi, Hanuman, Waheguru, Bigbasket, Linkedin and Iloveindia are some of the most common passwords in India. While some passwords took less than one second to crack, others almost three years (read: wowecarts@123). “However, if the password has already appeared in the top 200 list, even if it takes three years to crack, people shouldn’t use it, as clearly, a lot of people are already using it,” says Jonas Karklys, CEO of NordPass.
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