No progress in the culture of information security: Italians continue to choose bad passwords and the safest one in the ranking is unpronounceable
Here we go again: another year is ending and it’s already time for embarrassing rankings. Like the one compiled by NordPass on the most used passwords in the world, with a lot of national sub-rankings that allow us to know which are the most used passwords in Italy. We expected it: the 10 most used passwords in our country are one worse than the other.
Not very consoling is the fact that, in the choice of the password, Italians are not so much poorer than Germans, English or French, or that they are better than Germans: the result is anyway an embarrassing top ten in 2021 (and unfortunately we believe that it will be also in 2022). Segno che la cultura della sicurezza informatica non è ancora neanche lontanamente entrata nella testa dell’utente medio di Internet che, per l’ennesimo anno, in massa sceglie la password peggiore di tutte: 123456. Ma la cosa più esilarante, in tutta questa vicenda, è che la password più robusta tra le prime quaranta più usate in Italia è una parolaccia.
Le 10 password più usate in Italia
Partiamo dalle cattive notizie: le dieci password più usate dagli italiani fino ad ora nel 2021. Ecco la top ten:
- 123456
- 123456789
- 12345
- 12345678
- qwerty
- juventus
- 000000
- password
- andrea
- napoli
Tutte queste password possono essere violate dai sistemi informatici usati dagli hacker in meno di un secondo, tranne una: “andrea” (che si viola in 2 minuti).
Il problema è che la sola NordPass di password “123456″ ne ha trovate 1,7 milioni in Italia. And these are partial data, extrapolated from the global data present in a 4 TB database of passwords, compiled by independent researchers.
Send your password to hell
In this not-so-reassuring scenario, we must point out the 76,981 Italians who have chosen the 39th most common password in Italy: “vaffanculo” (fuck off). Compared to the others, this dirty word is a very powerful bulwark against hacker attacks: to violate it through computerized systems, in fact, it takes 12 days.
If you don’t like bad words, however, you can also choose other equally strong passwords such as “forzamilan”, “alessandra” or “coccinella”.