Is your Password Virgo? Astrology fans, don’t use horoscope for THIS! Check astro tips
With Astrology deep rooted in India’s culture and history, its popularity is understandable. From newspapers, online websites, YouTube channels and apps, horoscope star signs and zodiac sign predictions are everywhere. Millions of people in India are astrology fans, but the problem begins when the enthusiasm for astrology transcends to the online security space. If your password for any online account is Virgo, Gemini or Scorpio, then change it now! It is very dangerous to keep these passwords. 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. Follow our astro tips to avoid getting hacked.
Recently, a 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 that not only horoscope star signs but names, endearing terms and even pet names were listed as passwords which were breached the most amount of times. Zodiac signs like Aries, Leo, Gemini, Cancer, Scorpio made it to the 20th position on the same list, highlighting how bad a choice they are when it comes to passwords. Besides these, check the worst passwords that you can keep for your account, below.
From Virgo to ‘iloveyou’ to iPhone, the list of weak passwords are plenty. But there are some passwords which are worse than others. Yes, even worse than horoscope based passwords! In fact, these passwords are so bad that they made it to the report’s top 5 most commonly hacked passwords list. And even if you find them silly, millions of people are using these weak
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