Astrology on mind? Is your password Taurus? Don’t use horoscope; check these astro tips, avoid trouble

tech.hindustantimes.com:

Astrology can be quite interesting, fascinating even. From both taking a sneak peak into your future to finding out if you are compatible with your best friend’s horoscope star sign or not. But for those of you who bring your enthusiasm for astrology to the digital security realm - stop! Keeping Zodiac signs as passwords is a dangerous affair. There are only 12 options and a hacker would not need more than a couple of minutes to figure it out. So, here is our astrology tip of the day for you - make your password strong and unique to protect from hackers and scammers. And if you don’t know how to do it, that’s okay. We have shared some tips to make your passwords strong and unique based on a report by Dojo tech. Follow our astro tips to avoid getting hacked.

A password can be weak if it has just alphabets or numbers or it is shorter than 6 characters. Further, if it is based on your or loved one’s name, pet name, horoscope star signs etc, it makes it weaker. People often pick these passwords because they are easy to remember. But they are also easy to guess. A recent report analyzed UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) data “on over 100,000 breached passwords” to categorize the most vulnerable passwords that a person can create. It found out that terms of endearment are the most hacked passwords. The biggest offenders were ‘Love’ (hacked 1492 times), ‘Baby’ (417) and ‘Angel’ (330).

From Taurus to ‘iloveyou’ to cheeseburger, the list of weak passwords are endless. However, there are some passwords which are weaker than others. Yes, even worse than horoscope based passwords! In fact, these passwords are so bad that they made it to Dojo’s top 5 most commonly hacked passwords list. And despite how silly you may think