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‘Admin’ and ‘12345’ banned from being used as passwords in UK crackdown on cyber attacks | Science & Tech News
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Common and easily guessed passwords like “admin” or “12345” are being banned in the UK as part of world-first laws to protect against cyber attacks. As well as default passwords, if a user suggests a common password they will be prompted to change it on creation of a new account. It comes as a home…
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UK’s most popular passwords revealed | Science & Tech News
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Britons appear to have little regard for the security of their online accounts, based on new research of the country’s most popular passwords. While we should really all know better, “password” itself is the top pick nationwide – and slight variations such as “password1” and “password123” are not far behind. It overtook last year’s “123456”…