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Euros Football Fever Nets Dumb Passwords

The European soccer championship (a.k.a. the Euros) is stoking maximum football fever, which has slopped over into easy-to-crack passwords. The worst of the football-inspired weak passwords is that word football : It pops up 353,993 times in the database of 1 billion breached passwords maintained by authentication firm Authlogics. The mind-boggling number of football-related passwords poses an obvious problem, s Kate Wotherspoon wrote in the report.

Source: https://threatpost.com/euros-football-fever-dumb-passwords/166974/

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