Monthly Archives: January 2015

One More New Year’s Resolution: Change Your Passwords Before Groundhog Day

The SplashData list of worst passwords of 2014 was just published, and it looks very similar to the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, etc.:

Rank
Password
Change from 2013

1
123456
No Change

2
password
No Change

3
12345
Up 17

4
12345678
Down 1

5
qwerty
Down 1

6
123456789
No Change

7
1234
Up 9

8
baseball
New

9
dragon
New

10
football
New

11
1234567
Down 4

12
monkey
Up 5

13
letmein
Up 1

14
abc123
Down 9

15
111111
Down 8

16
mustang
New

17
access
New

18
shadow
Unchanged

19
master
New

20
michael
New

21
superman
New

22
696969
New

23
123123
Down 12

24
batman
New

25
trustno1
Down 1

Sadly,… More

The Outlook for 2015

Data privacy and security have never been more top of mind for business than they are right now. As I noted in this article in Law360:

“The outlook in 2015 is that we’ll have more breaches, but I think we’ll also continue to have more conversations as people get used to breaches as a way of life about what we expect to be kept private,… More