The passwords that we use on social networks, electronic devices or digital bank accounts function as a kind of doors that prevent access to those who do not know them. No one in their healthy judgment, therefore, would leave their home or establishment open in par so that anyone who passes there could enter. However, It seems that people are much less careful when there is a technological device in between.
Many protect their home with armored gates, anti -theft locks or even security cameras. But then, when configuring a password for your email, They decide for something as simple and predictable as ‘12345’ or its birthday, putting it too easy to any cybercrime minimally seasoned.
The lightness with which we disregard a matter as crucial as technological security is surprising at a time when digital already occupies the greatest weight in social and economic efforts of the day to day. Knowing how to use networks and devices also implies knowing and implementing certain minimum safety patterns.
Recently, a list of the most used passwords has been announced, both in Spain and worldwideas well as the time that would take him to a hacker or cybercrime guess them. Most of them, unfortunately, are ‘bread eaten’ For anyone who really wants to obtain our data and thus be able to steal or extort with them.
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Recently, The Nord Security cybersecurity company has shared a record with the most used passwords in our countryas well as in others, recommending users to choose them. Thus, from ‘Nord Pass’, the password administrator of this company, warned of the risk and exposure to cyberdelites to use one of the keys that appear in the registry.
Besides, Also provide you with data about the average time that would lead to a computer scientist to decipher each of these passwords How much they repeat themselves. As you can see, it is a more than worrying problem than These very common keys are used by so many people in Spain:
- ‘123456’, less than a second. Used by 27,374 users.
- ‘123456789’less than a second. Used by 14,385 users.
- ‘12345678 ‘less than a second. Used by 7811 users.
- ‘Iscorduroy’about two minutes. Used by 7349 users.
- ‘qwerty123’less than a second. Used by 5620 users.
- ‘12345’less than a second. Used by 5179 users.
- ‘qwerty1’less than a second. Used by 4907 users.
- ‘1234567890’less than a second. Used by 3439 users.
- ‘password’less than a second. Used by 2804 users.
- ‘1234567’less than a second. Used by 2743 users.
- ‘Barcelona’less than a second. Used by 2168 users.
- ‘000000’less than a second. Used by 2089 users.
- ‘111111’less than a second. Used by 2000 users.
- ‘SPAIN’about two minutes. Used by 1858 users.
- ‘QWERTY’less than a second. Used by 1551 users.
- ‘Alexander’about three seconds. Used by 1390 users.
- ‘Spain’about two minutes. Used by 1290 users.
- ‘Cristina’about three hours. Used by 1118 users.
- ‘Qwerty123’less than a second. Used by 1115 users.
These trends of course are known by cybercriminals, so it should be avoided at all costs one of these passwords as a key to access to any device or account that we possess. Besides, If the criminal already knows some personal data, As our birthday date, the country in which we live and the birthday or name of one of our relatives, It will be even easier to find the answer.
It especially draws attention that these 20 most used passwords follow the same patterns in the more than forty countries analyzed by NordPass. Soccer teams are an even more popular key in the United Kingdom: ‘Arsenal’, ‘Chelsea’, ‘Rangers’, ‘Liverpool’ or, directly ‘Football’. Humans are much more predictable than we usually think, that’s why authorities and security experts They recommend looking for a unique password or that is not directly related to our daily lives and our tastes.