The ultimate guide to secure passwords – The Peninsula Qatar

The ultimate guide to secure passwords – The Peninsula Qatar

Setting hard-to-guess passwords and then remembering them later isn't easy, and even the best of us mess up.

SolarWinds, which builds IT management software for customers including the US Department of Defense, blamed an intern after a critical company password was leaked online. The password was "solarwinds123."

Good password habits are like any good habit; easier said than done. Unfortunately, the stakes are getting higher as security disasters get bigger and more frequent. Giant breaches at T-Mobile, web host GoDaddy, trivia game DailyQuiz.me and gas provider Colonial Pipeline happened last year. More apps, more accounts and more passwords create more opportunities for theft. Meanwhile, human nature stays the same: "123456" is the most-used password in the world.

"You have to laugh to keep from crying," said JD Sherman, CEO of password manager company Dashlane.

In that spirit, Dashlane released a roundup of 2021's worst password catastrophes. Facebook made the list for a breach that exposed the phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and locations of 533 million people. So did Netflix, LinkedIn and bitcoin for their association with an online data dump that included more than 3 billion email-password combinations, which could represent 70 percent of global Internet users.

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