Suley2019
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Kuvuja kwa data na mashambulizi ya mtandao yanazidi kuwa jambo la kawaida ulimwenguni. Ili kulinda kitambulisho chako mtandaoni na taarifa zako kibinafsi, ni muhimu kutengeneza nywila yako bora.
Uchunguzi wa Cybernews na National Cyber Security Centre umebainisha baadhi ya nywila ambazo sio imara na zinaongoza kushambuliwa zaidi na wadukuzi ulimwenguni.
Kwa mujibu wa uchunguzi uliofanywa na Taasisi ya National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) ya #Uingereza, Watu wengi wamekuwa wakitumia 'Password' (Nywila) ambazo ni rahisi kudukuliwa kwenye vifaa vyao vya Kielektroniki
NCSC inashauri watu kutotumia 'Password' zenye Herufi au Tarakimu zinazofuatana au kufanana na badala yake watumie Mchanganyo wa Tarakimu, Herufi pamoja na Alama ili kuongeza UlinziWaTaarifaBinafsi katika Vifaa wanavyotumia
Password zinazoongoza kudukuliwa zaidi Duniani;
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Data breaches and cyberattacks are becoming more and more common. In order to keep your online identity and private information safe, taking care of your passwords is as essential as ever.
One of the key elements of a strong password is its uniqueness. But some passwords are anything but that. Here are the most commonly used passwords & phrases used in passwords by people around the world – collected by the Cybernews Investigation Team.
In total, we were able to analyze 15,212,645,925 passwords, of which 2,217,015,490 were unique. We discovered some interesting things about the way that people create passwords: their favorite sports teams, cities, food, and even curse words. We could even deduce the probable age of the person by looking at which year they use in their password.
During our research, we analyzed over 15 billion entries and separated them into different categories and terms. These right here are some of the most common things used in passwords – if you use something like this in your own combinations, you might want to think twice.
Making a rough assumption, people may generally use years in their passwords to mark:
From our analysis, we see that the most popular year was 2010, with nearly 10 million versions of this year used in passwords. The second-most popular used year was 1987 at 8.4 million, and the third was 1991 at nearly 8.3 million.
Looking at the graph in total, there’s a steady increase in usage from around 1940 all the way to 1990. The trend goes down after that, to rise again sharply from 2004 to 2010.
Uchunguzi wa Cybernews na National Cyber Security Centre umebainisha baadhi ya nywila ambazo sio imara na zinaongoza kushambuliwa zaidi na wadukuzi ulimwenguni.
Kwa mujibu wa uchunguzi uliofanywa na Taasisi ya National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) ya #Uingereza, Watu wengi wamekuwa wakitumia 'Password' (Nywila) ambazo ni rahisi kudukuliwa kwenye vifaa vyao vya Kielektroniki
NCSC inashauri watu kutotumia 'Password' zenye Herufi au Tarakimu zinazofuatana au kufanana na badala yake watumie Mchanganyo wa Tarakimu, Herufi pamoja na Alama ili kuongeza UlinziWaTaarifaBinafsi katika Vifaa wanavyotumia
Password zinazoongoza kudukuliwa zaidi Duniani;
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Data breaches and cyberattacks are becoming more and more common. In order to keep your online identity and private information safe, taking care of your passwords is as essential as ever.
One of the key elements of a strong password is its uniqueness. But some passwords are anything but that. Here are the most commonly used passwords & phrases used in passwords by people around the world – collected by the Cybernews Investigation Team.
- 123456
- 123456789
- qwerty
- password
- 12345
- qwerty123
- 1q2w3e
- 12345678
- 111111
- 1234567890
How we collected the most common passwords?
The Cybernews Investigation team was interested in what kind of most common password patterns everyday people were using in creating their own passwords. We collected data from publicly leaked data breaches, including the Breach Compilation, Collection #1-5, and other databases. We then anonymized the data and detached the passwords so that we could look at that data in isolation and find the most popular passwords and phrases used.In total, we were able to analyze 15,212,645,925 passwords, of which 2,217,015,490 were unique. We discovered some interesting things about the way that people create passwords: their favorite sports teams, cities, food, and even curse words. We could even deduce the probable age of the person by looking at which year they use in their password.
Most frequent things in passwords
In order to create simple, memorable combinations for their websites, many people choose to connect them to something that they can easily recall. But that doesn't make the password unique: actually, it's quite the opposite!During our research, we analyzed over 15 billion entries and separated them into different categories and terms. These right here are some of the most common things used in passwords – if you use something like this in your own combinations, you might want to think twice.
How to generate a strong password?
- Use long password combinations
- Combine numbers, symbols, lowercase, and uppercase letters
- Avoid popular passwords
- Use a secure password manager to create and safely store strong passwords
Most popular years used in passwords
One of the most interesting things is when we looked at which years from 1900-2020 were the most used by people when they made passwords.Making a rough assumption, people may generally use years in their passwords to mark:
- their birth year
- the year in which the password was created
- a special year
From our analysis, we see that the most popular year was 2010, with nearly 10 million versions of this year used in passwords. The second-most popular used year was 1987 at 8.4 million, and the third was 1991 at nearly 8.3 million.
Looking at the graph in total, there’s a steady increase in usage from around 1940 all the way to 1990. The trend goes down after that, to rise again sharply from 2004 to 2010.
The internet’s favorite name as a password
The winner is: Eva, but just barely. The #2 name is Alex, which comes in about 50,000 instances less than Eva. After that is Anna, and it tapers down consistently to the #10 most common password name, Daniel.
