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WHERE’D I PUT MY PASSWORD?
57%MEMORIZETHEM
25%ALLOW THEIR BROWSERS TO SAVE THEM
11%WRITE THEM DOWN
7%USE PASSWORD MANAGING SOFTWARE. . . which is the recommended strategy from cybersecurity
professionals.
1 www.1reddrop.com/2018/03/07/statistics-america-password-security-practices/2 www.entrepreneur.com/article/2469023 www.prevention.com/life/g20490201/when-to-toss-common-household-items/?slide=34 www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/the-new-laws-of-tv-upgrading/250998/5 www.blog.preempt.com/weak-passwords6 www.betterbuys.com/estimating-password-cracking-times/77 www.fortune.com/2017/12/19/the-25-most-used-hackable-passwords-2017-star-wars-freedom/
SOURCES
73% 54%
of online accounts are guarded
by duplicated passwords
of people use 5 or fewer
passwords throughout their life
DANGEROUSREPETITION
TOP
OF
1. 1234562. Password3. 12345678
4. qwerty5. 123456. 1234567897
PASSWORDS
An ideal complex password would ideally have a mix of letters, numbers and special characters, like this:
DS*]_H:GMS?BZ7])
QUICK TO CRACKHackers make quick work of cracking passwords that are 10 characters or less:5
SIMPLE< DAYSOMEWHATCOMPLEX< WEEKHIGHLYCOMPLEX< MONTH
Time needed to crack an
password
1011-CHARACTER
YEARSTime needed to crack an
password6
20012-CHARACTER
YEARS
SIZE MATTERS
of people use passwords that
are over 10 years old . . .
meaning they’ve kept the
same password for the
lifespan of a mattress!2,3
of people use passwords that
are at least 5 years old . . .
meaning some have had the
same password for the
average lifespan of a TV!4
of Americans only change
their password when they
forget it!
never change their
password!
17%51%47%21%
NO ONE LIKES CHANGE
STATISTICS
PASSWORDSECURITY
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