{"id":484973,"date":"2019-04-22T18:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=825801"},"modified":"2019-04-22T18:53:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T00:53:17","slug":"stop-making-your-password-blink182-metallica-or-slipknot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/stop-making-your-password-blink182-metallica-or-slipknot\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Making Your Password \u2018Blink182,\u2019 \u2018Metallica\u2019 or \u2018Slipknot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_8907468b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you like using band names for Internet passwords, it might be best to go obscure: According to the U.K. government\u2019s National Cyber Security Center, some of the web\u2019s most-hacked passwords include \u201cblink182,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/metallica\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metallica\" data-tag=\"metallica\">metallica<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/slipknot\/\" id=\"auto-tag_slipknot\" data-tag=\"slipknot\">slipknot<\/a>,\u201d \u201ceminem\u201d and \u201c50cent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those five entires are included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.gov.uk\/blog-post\/passwords-passwords-everywhere\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cglobal password risk list,\u201d<\/a> the top 100,000 as documented by NCSC and Have I Been Pwned\u2019s Troy Hunt. (The list is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.gov.uk\/static-assets\/documents\/PwnedPasswordTop100k.txt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a> online.) Other vulnerable examples include several fictional characters (\u201csuperman,\u201d \u201ctigger,\u201d \u201cbatman,\u201d \u201cpokemon\u201d) and common names (\u201cashley,\u201d \u201cmichael,\u201d \u201cdaniel,\u201d \u201cjessica,\u201d \u201ccharlie\u201d), but the worst offenders lean toward obviousness and keyboard simplicity: \u201c123456,\u201d \u201c123456789,\u201d \u201cqwerty\u201d and \u201c1111111.\u201d The two numerical passwords were used by over 30 million hacking victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe understand that cyber security can feel daunting to a lot of people, but the NCSC has published lots of easily applicable advice to make you much less vulnerable,\u201d Dr. Ian Levy, NCSC\u2019s technical director, said in a statement. \u201cPassword re-use is a major risk that can be avoided \u2013 nobody should protect sensitive data with something that can be guessed, like their first name, local football team or favourite band. Using hard-to-guess passwords is a strong first step and we recommend combining three random but memorable words. Be creative and use words memorable to you, so people can\u2019t guess your password.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The survey was conducted on behalf of the NCSC, a part of Government Communications Headquarters and Department for Digital, Media and Sport. The NCSC hopes to reduce the risk of security breaches by raising awareness of hackers\u2019 methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/password-hacking-blink-182-slipknot-or-metallica-825801\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like using band names for Internet passwords, it might be best to go obscure: According to the U.K. government\u2019s National Cyber Security Center, some of the web\u2019s most-hacked passwords include \u201cblink182,\u201d \u201cmetallica,\u201d \u201cslipknot,\u201d \u201ceminem\u201d and \u201c50cent.\u201d Those five entires are included in the \u201cglobal password risk list,\u201d the top 100,000 as documented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 19:49:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}