{"id":174410,"date":"2023-10-19T23:47:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-most-popular-it-admin-password-is-totally-depressing"},"modified":"2023-10-20T01:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T06:43:22","slug":"the-most-popular-it-admin-password-is-totally-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-most-popular-it-admin-password-is-totally-depressing","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular IT Admin Password Is Totally Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-popular-it-admin-password-is-totally-depressing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After sifting through more than 1.8 million pages identified as admin portals, researchers made a disheartening discovery \u2014 40,000 of them used \u201cadmin\u201d as its password, making it the most popular credential used by IT administrators.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted on 2023 passwords between January and September by a <a href=\"https:\/\/outpost24.com\/blog\/it-admins-weak-password-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">team with Outpost24<\/a>, which also found an increased reliance on default passwords.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cloud\/patching-passwords-problem-pack-cyber-teams\" target=\"_blank\">passwords<\/a> discovered by the analysis included common defaults and easy-to-guess options:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sifting through more than 1.8 million pages identified as admin portals, researchers made a disheartening discovery \u2014 40,000 of them used \u201cadmin\u201d as its password, making it the most popular credential used by IT administrators. The research was conducted on 2023 passwords between January and September by a team with Outpost24, which also found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174455,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174410\/revisions\/174455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}