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The report indicates poor password practices could largely be due to feeling overwhelmed by cybersecurity.

The 2022 Online Authentication Barometer has identified that entering passwords online has dropped by 5% to 9% across all five major use-cases that it tracks -- including accessing financial services, work computers and accounts, social media, streaming services, and smart home devices -- compared to last year.

Loving and positive words, such as “mahalkita”, “iloveyou”, “iloveu”,”magandaako”, “mahalko”, “lovely” and others were very common.

Kaspersky said it is becoming more vital to store passwords securely and look out for possible instances when these credentials could be leaked.

The risk of being attacked is not reduced by changing passwords, but by making them strong. Further, this strength should be built not on complexity but on uniqueness.

Plus: The No. 1 reason why people change their passwords is because they lose them!