The most popular passwords. Part 2
This is a list of the most popular passwords of 2019 and 2020.
Find your password here.
Did you know that any of them can be hacked in just a few seconds?
3 months ago, my wife's email was hacked.
We quickly restored access to the mail, but I was interested in how it happened.
I began to study modern methods of cracking passwords, and I deduced a few rules for myself so that this would not happen again.
There are two pieces of news:
1. Bad - If you want to hack, there is always a way to do it
2. Good – most ordinary people do not need to be afraid of this
So let's look at the most common ways to crack passwords, 80-90% of cases fall on the well-known rules, but it still works
Password security tips:
1. Use long passwords
2. Don't use passwords from the top 200 most common passwords
3. Don't click on links, even in supposedly real e-mails
4. Don't store passwords from other services in the mail
5. Don't use the same passwords for different services
6. Use 2-step verification where possible
7. Don't install third-party little-known applications
Keep in mind that 80-90% of the hacking comes from these simple rules
Now, what do we do?
If you are a developer, you can create your own password manager. I decided to go this route and create my own personal password manager for me and my wife based on this Android and Iphone app in Flutter. What does it do? If it is personal, and does not appear anywhere, then it is impossible to break it.
If you have no programming experience, then:
1. #Password Manager. One minus, if it is hacked, they will get access to all passwords at once.
2. The old-fashioned way to write passwords on paper
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