Is your password sunshine, 666666, or monkey? Bad news: if a hacker tries to guess your password, those are some of the very first ones they’ll try. SplashData, makers of the password managers SplashID, TeamsID, and Gpassrecently examined over 5 million leaked passwords and named the 25 most common examples….
Most people know about good online security practices: make secure passwords, have a different one for each login and change them often. Far fewer people actually follow them — but why? With the risk of hacking now greater than ever, it’s important to have good password security practices, but most…
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