Today, February 6, 2024, marks the world internet safety dayand what better opportunity to point out the obvious: many users still use terrible passwords, and this is also an excellent excuse to remind you how to create a good password. In fact, you would think that, according to a recent study by NordPass, Italians would also take inspiration from the Sanremo Festival to create their passwords.
For example, i names of some participants at the Sanremo Festival are part of the most common passwords of 2023, or i titles of the most anticipated songs, with a few variations, they become easily guessable passwords. It goes without saying that special software for cracking passwords can violate passwords of this type in this way almost instantaneous.
There will come a day when, thanks to Passkey (if you don’t know what they are, find our in-depth analysis here), we can say goodbye to the much-hated passwords, but until then remember that the more banal they are, the more you will be exposed to the risks involved.
And since it is obvious that memorizing many alphanumeric passwords is complicated to say the least, get help from a good password manager. And for maximum security, don’t neglect two-factor authentication either (preferably not via SMS, but for example with Google Authenticator or similar tools).
