Basic Password Hygiene Is Still Awful, So Maybe It Is Time To Go Passwordless
ITProPortal, Monday, November 20,2023
Failing to use basic password hygiene could lead to disaster for organizations
Chronically poor password hygiene is leaving millions of users globally at the mercy of threat actors, according to new research from NordPass.
NordPass' new report on the 'Top 200 Most Common Passwords' reveals the general level of password security remains alarmingly poor, with over four million people using 'admin' as their password.
Every one of the top ten most used passwords on NordPass' list is estimated to take less than one second for threat actors to crack, with only 35 entries on the list taking longer than seconds before hackers can crack them.
Among the top ranking-passwords were variations on '1234', with six of the top ten solely using sequential numbers.