Are you using an easy to crack password?

Various news outlets (like PC Mag and The Telegraph) are reporting on SplashData’s survey of the most stolen passwords.

Needless to say if you are using one of these passwords (or a similar one) for any of your accounts you should change them. A good password isn’t a dictionary word and includes a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters (!,&,*,£,# etc).

Top 25 worst passwords

  1. password
  2. 123456
  3. 12345678
  4. qwerty
  5. abc123
  6. monkey
  7. 1234567
  8. letmein
  9. trustno1
  10. dragon
  11. baseball
  12. 111111
  13. iloveyou
  14. master
  15. sunshine
  16. ashley
  17. bailey
  18. passw0rd
  19. shadow
  20. 123123
  21. 654321
  22. superman
  23. qazwsx
  24. michael
  25. football

Amount of Internet Explorer users falls to under 50%

The amount of Internet Explorer users has been on a steady decline for months and months, dropping to 49.58% in November.

Googles’ Chrome browser seems to be going down a storm as its market share has almost doubled since December last year – With 16.59% of internet users choosing Chrome, just 5% less than the legendary Mozilla Firefox.

The Safari Browser has impressive statistics also as their amount of users has grown to 8.54% compared to the 5.57% from December.

You can view all of the statistics and a comparison graph here