{"id":20502,"date":"2023-05-01T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=20502"},"modified":"2023-05-01T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:41:01","slug":"123456-not-the-most-popular-password-after-nine-years-which-one-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/123456-not-the-most-popular-password-after-nine-years-which-one-is\/","title":{"rendered":"123456 not the most popular password after nine years, which one is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nordpass.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NordPass<\/a>, a &#8216;password manager,&#8217; &#8216;password&#8217; is currently the most used password in the world. However, &#8216;123456&#8217; remains very popular &#8211; Notwithstanding that it has been number one for years, it is still very commonly used, we currently encounter &#8216;123456&#8217; in second place.<\/p>\n<p>NordPass recently released the results of its <a href=\"https:\/\/nordpass.com\/most-common-passwords-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual survey<\/a> of the most commonly used passwords. The survey was conducted in 30 countries.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"frame-block\">\n<div class=\"frame-block__container frame-block__container--emoji\">\n<h3>Top 20 most used passwords<\/h3>\n<p>1. password<\/p>\n<p>2. 123456<\/p>\n<p>3. 123456789<\/p>\n<p>4. guest<\/p>\n<p>5. qwerty<\/p>\n<p>6. 12345678<\/p>\n<p>7. 111111<\/p>\n<p>8. 12345<\/p>\n<p>9. col123456<\/p>\n<p>10. 123123<\/p>\n<p>11. 1234567<\/p>\n<p>12. 1234<\/p>\n<p>13. 1234567890<\/p>\n<p>14. 000000<\/p>\n<p>15. 555555<\/p>\n<p>16. 666666<\/p>\n<p>17. 123321<\/p>\n<p>18. 654321<\/p>\n<p>19. 7777777<\/p>\n<p>20. 123<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Is your password among these?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Act fast is the message, change your password today before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>No idea how best to create a &#8220;secure&#8221; password? Here are some tips :<\/p>\n<h2>Tips for securing your passwords<\/h2>\n<p>1. Create long, unique passwords and never reuse them.<\/p>\n<p>2. Strongest passwords consist of Complicated combinations of numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase letters and symbols.<\/p>\n<p>3. Use a password manager. such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dashlane.com\/nl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dashlane<\/a>, among others This technological solution encrypts stored passwords and enables secure sharing. Too often passwords are still stored in an excel sheet, which makes it very easy to retrieve passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Still no idea how to compose a secure password, you can also use a password generator, of which many free versions can be found. e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lastpass.com\/nl\/features\/password-generator#generatorTool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lastpass.com<\/a> can be used to generate a password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to NordPass, a &#8216;password manager,&#8217; &#8216;password&#8217; is currently the most used password in the world. However, &#8216;123456&#8217; remains very popular &#8211; Notwithstanding that it has been number one for years, it is still very commonly used, we currently encounter &#8216;123456&#8217; in second place. NordPass recently released the results of its annual survey of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}