Top 20 worst passwords!

1234
12345
123456
1234567
12345678
123456789
696969

abc123
blink182
password
password1
password12345678

dragon
iloveyou
letmein
mustang
myspace1
princess
qwerty

your first name

 

Most popular/widely used password is maverick, any word or sequential letter/number sequence is bad news to use. For safe password use, use upper and lower case, letters and numbers and definately symbols.


A good password example would be:

'e4T%y0o

Steve...

 

But make sure it's something you can remember -- so you don't have to write it down.
(Not so much of a problem if you only ever use your computer at home, but if someone broke in and found the post-it with

Bank: xxxx
Email: xxxx

and so on, they'd have stolen more than your computer

(another) Steve

 

An easy way to do what Steve R and SteveC says is to pick an easy word to remember and then type one letter on the keyboard to the left of the letter you are thinking of...

so the password hopeful would become giowdyk If you can change any of the e to 3 and i to 1 etc it works even better. So I would try hopeful as g9o3dyk.

P.S. This is not a password I have ever used or would ever use!

 

Another idea is to have a generic password (mixed of course) plus some combination from the name of the site you are working with.

So using the suggestion above you could have g1owdyk as your start plus then GW could become fxg1owdyk (f and x being the letters to the left of g & c.

And Halifax Bank would be gvg1owdyk etc etc. Easy formula to remember but hard for anyone else to work out.

 

Thanks for the tips and keep them comming. I've only had a computer for a couple of months and already got more passwords than i can remember.

 

my australian aunt always uses the password

forgot

mad eh?


loopy

 

I worked for a while registering passwords for a telephone banking service.
The 2 most common passwords were RANGERS and CELTIC.
Terrible ! You could guess them from any 2 letters.

One day I had an Irish lady on the phone. She gave me her password as MGPTMO (I've changed this)
I wondered how she was going to remember that but said, is that
M for Mike
G for Golf
P for Papa
T for Tango
M for Mike
O for Oscar

She said quite seriously, off course it's not.
It's M for Mary, G for Gerald, P for Patrick, T for Theresa, M for Margaret and O for Orla.

 

lol, sounds good to me