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Password security: It's like sellotaping your house key to the

front door...

by Jonathan Stock, Cyber Security Recruitment Consultant, IntaPeople.

Last month we saw Barack Obama’s final mic drop as President, Kim Kardashian's finally stable
and secure enough to get back into her social network game, and there’s enjoyment all around
our office over the first instalment of the TV series ‘Spies’, watching people dropped into a
cybersecurity seminar come up with backstories as to why they were there and who they were.
Yet the same stories keep popping up within the cybersecurity industry.

On the radio this morning I heard another advert promoting individuals to be cyber aware; to be
concerned of malware, to not bow down to ransomware attacks. Great news, everyone is taking
notice of cybersecurity.

The industries mission to educate everyone is taking shape. And then, I read an article this
morning about the most common passwords of 2016, and of course, there’s some massive
issues….

Can you guess what the most used password was for 2016? The one used by nearly 1 in 5
people? The same one as 2015…. 123456. That’s right, 123456. Hello face, here's my palm!

Then there’s the rest of them; QWERTY, 111111, password; the list goes on in a similar vein
(my favourite of all of them was ‘google’).

It amazed me that in this day and age, when we are bombarded with news articles about
hackers stealing your personal data that there’s still not a greater effort by individuals to make
themselves as secure as possible.

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