- So I attended a cybersecurity event very recently,
and they covered off a few topics,
one of which was passwords,
and I thought it was worth creating just a short video
to talk about your passwords once more.
And one of the things they said,
which I found very interesting,
was that there are three things you can do
that will reduce the risk of you being targeted,
or attacked, or hacked by a whopping 80%.
So the three things are unique,
individual passwords for everything,
antivirus which is up to date and installed on everything,
and installing all of your Windows updates,
your application updates, your third party updates,
and keeping everything up to date.
Those three things together
reduce the chances by a whopping 80%.
So there has recently been a
top 100 passwords list shown online.
And just to educate you to make sure
you are not using those silly passwords,
not using the passwords that everybody knows.
So the top passwords that you should not be using,
number one are any form of concurrent number passwords.
So these are 12345, 11111,
98765, you know, 4567.
Anything that's in order,
whether it's forwards or backwards,
just don't use it.
That it the number one
common password that people use.
And number two is password, the word password.
Don't think you can get away by a capital P,
using a zero instead of an o,
using a 55 instead of Ss.
Even something that sounds complicated,
like p, @, 55,
w 0 r d exclamation mark.
That is one of the most popular passwords out there,
because people think it's complicated,
but actually where it is such
a popular complicated password,
it's one of the most used passwords out there.
So do not use that one.
Next on the list are first names,
and that includes changing letters
to numbers in the first names.
So if your name is Pete, don't change the Es to threes,
so it's not p 3 t 3.
First names themselves filled up many of the top 100 spots,
so just don't use your first name
or anybody else's first name as your password.
Just don't do that.
And then number four, there were some random ones, actually.
There was random words being the rest of the top 10,
and we're just gonna crack through some of them.
Sunshine, qwerty, which I guess are
the top few letters of the keyboard, so qwerty,
admin, welcome, I love you,
princess, football, and monkey.
Just some strange ones in there.
And then lastly on the list was, again,
you probably think you're being quite clever,
but if you hold the Shift key down
and run your fingers along the number keys,
you'll get exclamation, at symbol, pound sign,
dollar sign, percent, and just follow that along.
It looks like a very complicated password,
'cause it's all random symbols,
but because it's in order, again,
similar to the numbers where they're all in order,
it's one of the most top used passwords,
and that means it's also the top guessed password as well.
So if you're using any of these passwords,
change them, change them now.
You should be using unique passwords
on everything you're using.
Get yourselves a password manager,
anything like LastPass, 1Password.
There are tons of them out there
that make it very, very easy
to either remember those passwords,
but also they will fill the passwords in.
So if you are signing up for a new website,
you can use those services to automatically generate
a password to be used as a secure password
and it will store them for you.
So you don't have to remember them,
you can just log in to your 1Password application,
fire out the password, and use that sign in.
So that's it for today.
Just use complicated passwords on as much as you can do,
and try and stay (mumbles).
And try and stay safe out there.
Thank you, see you in the next one.
Bye, bye.