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SOME 210million people use the foolishly simple password 123456, analysis has revealed.
Summary
More than 52million have “password” as their login and 2.5million opt for “computer”, analysis shows. Football teams are popular — 1,218,040 choosing Chelsea — and bands, with Metallica used by more than a million, a list of exposed passwords shows. The problem was...
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Phishing and credential-based attacks succeed because they target people, not just infrastructure, technical controls like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC only ever close part of that gap. The rest comes down to whether a team can actually spot the fake, and whether a compromised credential can still be reused anywhere else.
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