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January 25th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Slowly but surely, it seems as though the public are beginning to take a little more care about the passwords they use. A study shows that the ‘imaginative’ “123456” is still the most popular, but people are moving away from using such common passwords.
The SplashData survey was conducted by compiling more than 3.3
million passwords leaked during 2014. The top two,
“123456” and “password” are still the most
popular, while numerical combinations make up nine of the top 25
passwords.
“Passwords based on simple patterns on your keyboard remain
popular despite how weak they are,” said Morgan Slain, CEO
of SplashData. “Any password using numbers alone
should be avoided, especially sequences. As more websites require
stronger passwords or combinations of letters and numbers, longer
keyboard patterns are becoming common passwords, and they are
still not secure,” the company’s website stated.
However, the top 25 most common passwords now only account for
2.2 percent of those leaked, so it would seem that some progress
is being made. When SplashData started compiling their list four
years ago, the top 25 accounted for six percent of leaky
passwords.
“It’s humorous, in some respects,” said Chris Doggett of the
IT security firm Kaspersky Lab. “But I think, generally, user
awareness has gotten better. People are smarter and, generally
speaking, know to be suspicious about e-mails from people they
don’t know and clicking on links,” the Washington Post
reported.
More people need to use “password” as password, #2 is not
acceptable! http://t.co/uaGmzaS6PW #worstpasswords2014
by @splashdata
— Theodore Surjo (@println_ts) January
21, 2015
Slain, also warned against using one’s favorite sport, or sports
team as a password, such as “football,” or “hockey.” He says by
publishing such lists, it can help raise awareness amongst the
public about the need for introducing strong passwords.
“As always, we hope that with more publicity about how risky
it is to use weak passwords, more people will start taking simple
steps to protect themselves by using stronger passwords and using
different passwords for different websites,” he said.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/225859-passwords-security-dumb-hacking/
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