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Most Common Passwords of 2020

Posted on July 23, 2020July 27, 2020 by Walter Wimberly

Every year a new list of most common passwords is released. You might ask, “where do these come from?”, and that’s a great question. Security firms scour the dark parts of the Internet to find people buying and selling passwords. Based upon these lists, they find the passwords and start organizing them by the number […]

Be Careful of Common Passwords

Posted on January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 by Walter Wimberly

One of the tools hackers use to break into online accounts is a list of common passwords. Often called a dictionary attack, because the hacker can go through the list of words, just like they’d enter them from a dictionary. That is why you shouldn’t use a standard word or word number combination (password, welcome), […]