Passwords

1st August 2022

It’s been claimed that over 80% of hacking-related breaches are due to weak or stolen passwords, so it seems that it would be very easy to dramatically improve security.

In theory, any password can be hacked but cyber criminals will move on to easier victims, if yours presents any degree of challenge. According to The World Economic Forum a 12-character password that has one uppercase letter, one number and one symbol would take a computer 34,000 years to crack and so is considered unbreakable.

The most common passwords (all of which can be cracked in less than 1 second) are:

If you are struggling to come up with an original password, that you haven’t used in every other situation where you’ve needed a password, we recommend that you use a password generator.

There are many free versions on the internet, a number of which will also store your passwords safely and auto fill for you. All you have to do is remember the password that gets you into your password generator. Easy!