In today’s post I’m going to answer the question which is asked by one of my friend i.e. What are Most Common WI-Fi Passwords? To give an answer to this question I explore the whole web and found some common passwords for WI-Fi which is used by the majority of people.
Here are the top most-used passwords. Is yours one of them? If so, then I strongly suggest you to change it to something stronger immediately
1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. 1234
5. qwerty
6. 12345
7. dragon
8. pussy
9. baseball
10. football
11. letmein
12. monkey
13. 696969
14. abc123
15. mustang
16. michael
17. shadow
18. master
19. jennifer
20. 111111
21. 2000
22. jordan
23. superman
24. harley
25. 1234567
26. 1234567890
27. iloveyou
28. princess
29. rockyou
30. abc123
31. babygirl
32. qwerty
33. monkey
34. lovely
35. letmein
36. myspace1
37. password1
38. link182
39. dragon
40. trustno1
41. sunshine
42. master
43. 123123
44. welcome
45. shadow
46. ashley
47. jesus
48. ninja
49. mustang
50. michael
So this is the list of the most common or you can say worst password WI-Fi password in 2013. I hope you didn’t find your password in the above list. And if so, I again highly recommend you to switch something secure. I also have some tutorial which helps you to create secure passwords. This tutorial has 4 steps to make strong and secure password i.e.
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Step 1: Choose a phrase
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Step 2: Add special characters
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Step 3: Associate it with a website
Step 1: Choose a phrase
You can make a secure password just by making using simple phrases like “My very educated Mother just shows us nine Planet”. Now if we use the first letter from every word and substitute “9” with “Nine”. We get:
MveMjsu9P
Step 2: Add special characters
We can also make above password more secure and strong just by adding special characters like
#MveMjsu9P:
Step 3: Associate it with a website
Now you have a secure password. But you can also use your new password on several different websites by adding a prefix or suffix. Like show below
#MveMjsu9P:AmZfor AmazonfCb#MveMjsu9P:for Facebook#MveMjsu9P:YtBfor YouTube- ppl#MveMjsu9P: for Paypal
So this is nerdsmagazine tip and tutorial to make a secure password. Try It Yourself! What are your best tips for staying secure online? Let us know in the comments.
