These continue to be the worst (and most used) passwords from the internet – Daily News – Lisbon

The worst passwords of 2015 were revealed and “winning” to are the same as last year

If use any of the passwords that list is better to change it quickly. The Splashdata revealed the worst 2015 passwords and the “winners” are the same as last year: “123456″ and “password”

The password management company compiled from more than two dice. million passwords revealed by pirates last year and concluded that the security level there are no major improvements.

Despite some pages now ask for longer passwords, “the largest passwords are so simple” the size “ultimately worthless as a security measure,” explains the company. Among the passwords most commonly used are “12345678″, “qwerty”, “12345″ and “123456789″.

And if you think “1qaz2wsx” is a good password … think again. The company stresses that passwords based on standards – in this case the number and the first letters of each column. – Are easily guessed by pirates

The list also shows that use popular terms of sport or Popular culture is also an error:. the word “Football” occupies the seventh position in the list and “starwars” joined the 25th

To make your accounts and data more secure, the company advises using different passwords for different pages, the choice of words or even sentences with a variety of characters and the use of a management program passwords – this is, after all, the business of Splashdata

The list of the worst 25 words of Splashdata:

1-123456

2 – password

3 – 12345678

4 – qwerty

5-12345

6-123456789

7 – football

8 – 1234

9-1234567

10 – baseball

11 – welcome

12-1234567890

13 – abc123

14-111111

15 – 1qaz2wsx

16 – dragon

17 – master

18 – monkey

19 – letmein

20 – login

21 – princess

22 – qwertyuiop

23 – soil

24 – passw0rd

25 – starwars