Yes, a study by a password manager indicates that we are not learning anything about making our passwords as secure as possible.
In fact, there is a certain percentage of passwords that can be cracked in this time frame.
What is that percentage?
The answer will be coming if you read the article, but if you want to guess, please call (888) 405-7524 or (818) 527-4754 before looking at the article.
We will be creating a question for this week’s security hour and when we return to TSB after the thanksgiving holiday break.
Speaking of podcasts, you’ll need to go to EMHS’s TSB directory to get the link as we did not get the link up on the blog as I thought I did although I may put up another blog post soon with that link.
Now to our article here at hand.
According to Nord Password manager, the company studied more than 9 million passwords.
I expect to have this question answered by 100 percent of users. Which password was found the most that is still being used today and what was the number of times it was found within a 6 year period of time during this study?
Passwords like qwerty, abcdef, 1234567 and other combinations are still given. I’m not saying in my article here that these are the top answers, but I know that I don’t want to cover every little thing. here.
Also, what percentage of passwords cross between work and personal according to this article?
This is going to be interesting.
The article is titled These passwords take 1 second to crack if you want to read this.
This breaks my heart that we are going backwards, and not going forwards. We’ll have a question or two for the podcast both the security hour and the next TSB.
Good luck! Let us know if you’d like your answers posted, and leave a callback number if you want to have us call you back; especially if its different than the number you may be calling.