Friday 6th February 2014
Despite all the warnings, people persist in choosing easy-to-break passwords to protect their precious online data.
For all the high-tech security threats lurking in the shadows, weak passwords are the easiest to fix, yet apparently the most ignored. It’s not that difficult to come up with complicated yet easy-to-remember passwords, it’s just that some people still aren’t prepared to make the effort.
Every year web security specialist SplashData trawls through several million leaked passwords in search of our favourites. The results are in for 2014….