Every CEO would like to think that employees are protecting company PCs with hard-to-crack passwords. Maybe not.
If your company mirrors the findings of a recent survey, then you’re probably a lot more vulnerable than you thought.
A recent analysis of 32 million passwords by RockYou.com found that many folks are relying on some pretty common and pretty predictable combinations.
Check out the 10 most frequent ones — then talk with IT and supervisors to remind them that the following should never be used:
- 123456 (290,731 users)
- 12345 (79,078 users)
- 123456789 (76,790 users)
- Password (61,958 users)
- Iloveyou (51,622 users)
- Princess (35,231 users)
- Rockyou (22,588 users)
- 1234567 (21,726 users)
- 12345678 (20,553 users)
- abc123 (17,542 users)
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