What's your password for Apple, Spotify, or whatever service you're using to listen to this

podcast episode?

Recall it in your head.

Does it contain upper and lowercase letters? A number? How about a symbol? Is it at least, I don't know, 10 characters long? If you answered yes to all those questions, well get your own

Cybersecurity podcast show off. If you answered no to any or let's be honest most of those questions I just asked then you're not alone

According to splash data a security firm which releases a list of the most commonly used passwords. Every year, 10% of all accounts

in the world use the same 25 passwords. Some of the perennial favorites, Quirti, 7's football, and of course,

Password. Password held the number one slot for a while until 2013 when it was eclipsed by 123456.

As of 2017, according to the data set, one two two, three, four, five, six is used for approximately 4% of all internet accounts.

Now, this is the point where you'd usually hear something like,

hey, don't do that, use good passwords.

Don't repeat them.

Yada, yada, yada.

But I'm not going to do that. You've heard it before. In today's episode I want to offer the exact opposite.

I don't blame anybody for using bad passwords. I understand why they do it.

Hi I'm Ran Levy.

Hi, I'm Ran Levy.

Welcome to the Malicious Life Podcast in collaboration with Cyparison.

Passwords are both the most essential and arguably one of the most vulnerable features of the

modern internet. The problem is that they give us ordinary people complete

control over our own cybersecurity. If you've listened to this

podcast at all before, you'll know that most people tend not to be very good at cyber security.

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