Too many passwords for comfort

PASSWORD is no longer the most-used password on the internet, according to research by software firm, SplashData.

Too many passwords for comfort

The security experts have worried us into action. But ‘password’ has slipped only as far as second place. and it has been replaced by that cryptic barrier, ‘123456’.

So we are not security sophisticates yet. But nonetheless it feels like a changing of the guard.

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