We say it a lot and we mean it; cyber security is vital in the online world. Passwords are a huge part of that. However, while many know we should use unique usernames and complex password combinations, we don’t. Even the reports of cyber attacks and breaches over the years haven’t made a huge difference, with bad password habits being far more common than you might think.
In light of the above, we have decided to go through some interesting facts about passwords, in the hope that you will think about how you create, use and store your passwords for the future.
At the beginning of the Web and when passwords were first used, the most popular password was ‘12345’. Today, it may be longer, but is hardly safer – ‘123456’.
Additionally, research has found that women are famous for using personal names in their passwords, and men opt for their hobbies.Amichai Shulman, the Chief Technology Officer at Imperva,
which makes software blocking for hackers commented on these patterns when he said “I guess it’s just a genetic flaw in humans … We’ve been following the same patterns since the 1990s”.
