The Civil Guard warns of passwords that you should never use

It can be a nuisance to create a password for each of the services that we are using on the network, a password for email, another for our Netflix account, another for the bank and so on, causing many people to end up choose to put the same password or put passwords that are very easy to memorize.

And with this, artificial intelligences such as ChatGPT can end up discovering your password in just a few seconds, or even a flesh and blood cybercriminal can enter your account with a small computer program, or even with social engineering.

The Civil Guard alerts with a set of 25 passwords that you should never use in each of your accounts, and there are some really well-known passwords.

In this list of 25 passwords that the Civil Guard never recommends using in our services, applications and devices, the first place goes to the classic “123456”, which remains unchanged compared to almost a decade ago.

In second position, the classic word “password” (password in English), which also does not receive any change in position compared to almost 10 years ago.

Third place is “12345678” which has moved up one position, as well as the “qwerty” keyboard combination. then we see passwords that refer to sports or names in English.

Recommendations for creating strong passwords

It is unknown where the Civil Guard got the source, but given that they are comparing it with 2014, it is likely that it is old information.

On the other hand, since many of these passwords are also in English, it is likely that they have looked for the source in some international medium.

Be that as it may, with regard to numerical passwords or common keyboard combinations, they are practically the same in all countries, including Spain.

Basically you have to choose one password unique for each of your services, passwords that have at least eight characters, with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters.