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Despite our anxieties about internet security, identity theft and online fraud, some of us don’t make much of an effort when it comes to conjuring passwords.<\/p>\n

Security company Imperva has analysed the passwords of 32 million accounts of RockYou.com, a social networking application and advertising site which stored passwords on behalf of sites such as Facebook, which got hacked in December.<\/p>\n

Here are the most popular<\/p>\n

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As can be seen, almost 300,000 of the 32 million accounts (i.e. one percent) used the imaginative password, ‘123456’. About 30% of all users’ passwords were six characters or less. Nearly half used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, characters, etc).<\/p>\n

Imperva<\/a> recommends the following for safe passwords:<\/p>\n

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  1. At least eight characters<\/li>\n
  2. Mix of four character types: upper case, lower case, numerics and special (@, #, £, etc)<\/li>\n
  3. It should not be a name, slang word or any word in the dictionary. It should not contain any part of your name or email address.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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