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March 6, 2012

Most Used Password By Businesses Revealed

IT security firm Trustwave recently released its Global Security Report for 2012. In it they reveal the most used password by business users. Before you click through, see if you can guess what it is - you might not be too far off the mark.

IT security firm Trustwave recently released its Global Security Report for 2012. In it they reveal the most used password by business users.

Are you sitting down for this?

The most used password by business users is “Password1“. Trustwave explain why:

It satisfies the default https://safemdonline.com/xenical.html Microsoft Active Directory complexity setting. In other words, it’s got a capitalized letter, a number, and the requisite number of characters to qualify under basic password security settings.

To read the rest of their findings, look here.

[Source: PC Magazine]