This year’s worst passwords are out, and oh my, you silly primates still don’t quite get this “information security” concept, do you? Anyway, here’s the backstory: every year, a company called Splashdata goes through a list of leaked passwords. These are basically hacker booty–long lists of plain-text excel spreadsheets full of personally identifying data, posted…
This Sixth Grader is Better at Information Security Than You
You suck at passwords. This isn’t a personal slur—the law of averages says that you have not chosen a password that can adequately defend your data. In 2014, the most common (and therefore worst) password found in leaked data was still “123456.” The second most common password is “password.” Even if you’re smarter than the…