The 2012 list of the 25 most popular passwords has been
published. If yours is on the list, you may want to consider
changing it.  Perhaps the greatest risk to a computer's security
is the laziness of the user. That at least seems to be the case
after reviewing a list of 2012´s most popular passwords. Despite
websites urging users to pick unique and often lengthy
passwords, and despite it being well known that a complex
password is paramount to protecting an account, it seems that
people are just horribly predictable and lazy anyway.
SplashData, a company dedicated to mobile productivity and
security solutions, has compiled the list, which is composed of
the 25 most popular passwords from this year. The passwords,
which were ranked by number of occurrences, were grabbed from
thousands of stolen passwords which had been published online.
This, naturally, shows that the more popular and predictable
passwords are ultimately unsafe.  "password" is not a good
password, surprise surprise…  A similar list was publi