Many People Uses Simple Passwords on Web!

“123456” is the sequence of passwords mostly used by the people on the internet. A recent survey has claimed that many people uses simple passwords on the internet.

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A few days back I was discussing with few friends of mine, about the type of passwords used by people on the web. The outcome of our discussions confirmed that mostly people uses a few sequences which are too simple and really easy to break it down. It is true that mostly people prefer to use “password”, “123456”, or something like these terms as the passwords on the web.

The most interesting fact is that many people simply use their first name as the password while a few people prefer to use the name of their favorite movie star as the password. A few samples of some simple looking passwords used by people are batman, bond007, cocacola, 12345678, 1234, pussy, 12345, dragon, qwerty, football etc.

Some of the funniest looking simple passwords are xxxxxx, zzzzzz, sexy, 111111, hello, please, internet etc. These indications have a huge relief for the hackers that they will not have to work hard to break the passwords.

I still remember the early days, when I was new in the field of web, I use to use the term “qwerty” as the password for most of my accounts. Even today I prefer using some simple passwords for some specific sites, but now I as I am aware that a few websites has some urgent data so I am now using a bit tough password.

Once one of my website was hacked by one person, and from then I am using a bit complicated passwords for almost all of my sites, but for some simple looking task I still prefer the simple looking passwords.

I mostly check the strength of the passwords with the help of Microsoft by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx (This link is not working anymore) or with the help of The Password Meter.

Complex passwords are always required to protect the valuable data, as many people are looking to hack the information from your accounts so that they can use them. Although a complex password is not a guarantee that you’re valuable data is safe, but it helps a bit to save them from a few wrong hands.

A few tips through which you can generate complex passwords for your self:

• Don’t contain any characters from the user name.
• Try to build passwords of at least 8 characters.
• Try to use the combination of alphabets and numeric characters along with a few special characters.
• Try to mix the use of Uppercase and Lowercase letters.

I hope the above tips will help you to generate complex passwords for you. Try to use different passwords for different sites; it will make the task difficult for the hackers. Never write down your passwords on any page or save on any website, otherwise it might fell to some wrong hands. Also try to change the passwords after a gap of around 15 days or 30 days or so.

So friends enjoy the web with the help of some complex passwords generated by your self.