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India's most popular password isn't '123456': it is this word
In India, the most popular password is "password" and not "123456" as has been widely speculated. Interestingly, Japan is the only other country that had the same top password as India, new research showed on Thursday.
Other common passwords people use in India are "iloveyou", "krishna", "sairam" and "omsairam", among others.
According to new research by NordPass which is a proprietary password manager, predictable numerical and keyboard sequences are particularly popular in India.
"Passwords such as 12345 and variations of qwerty were ranked high up in the lists. Worldwide, these combinations are also quite popular, as well as localised versions of qwerty (for example, aazerty' in French speaking countries)," the research showed. Click Here
Best Password Strength checker
Here are a bunch of password strength validation UX for signup pages designed by Alexandr Izumenko . Based on the dribbble shots by Josh Overton. There are four different styles to choose from: The 1st one has a progress bar like interface that shows red, orange and green for varying strength of...
Computer & Password Security
It appears Bots are using brute force to break into people’s accounts. If you have a short password, it is at risk no matter how many odd characters and numbers you have. Password security is based more on length rather than odd characters or the like, no matter what some security types might claim.
For instance, a password with six characters can be hacked in a couple of hours from a persistent Bot. But if your password has 12 characters, that becomes far harder to hack. 18 characters and it is once more far more difficult because of the huge amount of potential combinations.
While 18 odd characters might be hard to remember, you can take a couple of words and add them together. Toss in some “leet” replacing certain letters with symbols and a number sequence of some sort and you have an even more difficult password that is not hard to remember... but hard to hack.
That said, the easiest way for a hacker to get into your system is by doing research on you and then requesting a new password while using your statistics to answer your questions. Even two-factor identification can be overcome by a smart hacker. So when you choose your questions, use information you don’t put out there. If you have a first pet you loved, never talk about them or give a different name for the cat (for instance, use a personal nickname for your pet rather than the real name, and never mention that nickname online).
The webcomic xkcd goes into detail on this here: https://xkcd.com/936/
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Visual feedback for password strength on an image based on Colibro's sign up form.