As we approach February, and look forward to a year of stronger cybersecurity, there is still time to give your passwords a refresh and resolve to do so regularly.
Password protection is more important than ever, especially with so many devices, which provide ready access to so much of our personal information.
AVG’s own Tony Anscombe noted in his Safer Internet Day 2015 post recently, “Protecting your online world starts with devices and setting a passcode…”
It was interesting to find that in the annual list of Top 25 most common passwords on the Internet, as researched by the password management provider SplashData, the easy targets like “123456″ and “password” continue to hold the top two spots!
Other favorites in the research conducted by analyzing passwords that had been leaked in 2014: QWERTY and football. Their popularity makes them notoriously some of the “worst” passwords to use and the “easiest” for hackers to figure out.
Creating a strong password
Picking a strong password doesn’t need to be difficult. We recently published an infographic on how to create a strong password that is also easy to remember.
