Comment Weak passwords are a cause of data breaches (Score 1) 42
There have been various data breaches reported worldwide until now. One underlying cause of each of these attacks is user's password which aren't strong enough to bear a hack. Hackers usually us the weak passwords to gain access to a user's account and thereon they can get into other accounts too.
Usually users do not pay much attention for creating strong passwords while registering on a new website. Cyber criminals take advantage of such practices to gain access into an organizations data. The cyber criminals often send phishing mails to customers to gain login credentials of their account. They might also use other methods like brute force attack or man in the middle attack etc for the same. Hence it is very important for any organisations to set its parameters for password generation such that the customers create strong passwords and change them periodically.
I read an article about some of the worst passwords, which I believe might be helpful for avoiding the bad passwords:
https://www.loginradius.com/bl...