One of the infographics of relevance to most Internet users is\u00a0the 500 most popular English language passwords.<\/p>\n
Styled like a scatter graph, passwords are sorted alphabetically from left to right \u2013 with those closer to the top the most popular and the\u00a0variation in text size indicating password strength.<\/p>\n
The graphic shows that traditionally weak passwords, such as “12345678”, “password” and “qwerty” remain the most used passwords, though their strength is severely lacking.<\/p>\n
Other commonly used passwords, such as “abc123” and “trustno1”, however, appear to be stronger thanks to the character and number combinations, despite their apparent overuse.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Passwords infographic<\/p><\/div>\n
The infographic shows that passwords close to the top of the list can be rated as \u201cstronger\u201d than those lower down by algorithms that measure password strength.<\/p>\n
One could argue that users might easily be given a false sense of security about their passwords, even though simple hacks could guess them.<\/p>\n
There is also a section on\u00a0the most common password categories. The table below shows which categories are the most used when selecting a password.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Password Categories<\/p><\/div>\n
More excerpts from Knowledge is Beautiful and zoomed in portions of the password infographic are available on the BBC News Magazine website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n This article was republished with permission from MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n 25 worst passwords on the Internet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore on passwords<\/h3>\n