We know that the process of choosing passwords is a tedious matter. With so many social networks, streaming platforms, emails, bank accounts and different websitesusers end up choosing the easiest combination.
And we say combination out of a mere courtesy, since sometimes there is not even a difference in characters. It is a whole pattern that makes your computer security very vulnerable to attacks by cybercriminals.
The people of ESET Latin America, in collaboration with the password manager NordPass, made a report on the 10 most insecure passwords it had in 2022. The report involves specific data from Chile, other Latin American countries and Spain.
The idea is to show how common passwords can be. We invite you to change it now if you have one of these (please).
Computer security is one of the most precious assets that any user must take care of. Social network accounts, banks, emails and applications in general are the main targets of criminals.
They have developed mechanisms that try hundreds or thousands of passwords per hour until they find the exact passwords of other users.
This is how the report breaks down the 10 most insecure passwords, calculating the time in which these mechanisms decipher them.
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The report includes particular data from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain and Mexico. In all of these, the most used password is repeated: 123456. In addition, something that can be easily appreciated is the number of variants of “123456”, which is also observed globally.
“This is a pattern that people often follow when choosing a password so that they are easy to remember. However, this makes them easy to predict. Specially in automated brute force attacks in which cybercriminals use software to test multiple combinations of email addresses and passwords in seconds”, points out Camilo Gutiérrez Amaya, Head of the Research Laboratory of ESET Latin America.
This is how this list of 10 passwords that we ask you to stop using on your digital platforms appears.
