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if your password is 1 2 3 4 5 you should just throw away your computer because you don't belong on the internet I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update cyber attacks and data breaches are practically a weekly occurrence these days and yet even though we've seen some horrendous hack attacks in the past year people are still using some of the absolute worst passwords ever the password manager service splash data published its annual list of the worst passwords by compiling more than 3.3 million leaked passwords from 2014 to find the most commonly used the top two continued to be 123456 and password also on the top 10 worst list qwerty dragon baseball and football new in the top 25 list this year is Batman but I'm sorry to break it to you Batman can't save you from cyberattacks picking a common word or sports team or a number string is the worst thing you can do because these are the first things hackers try when cracking accounts you also shouldn't use names of your kids or your birth year all those are easy to find out our desks instead create a password that's a combination of two uncommon words mixed with some numbers and symbols that way it'll help you better remember maybe you want to pick something quirky from your childhood or funny word your mom used to say to you just stay away from common words of course another problem is using that same password on multiple accounts but soon you may not have to memorize so many passwords a report from juniper research says that in the next four years we'll be relying more on mobile apps that use fingerprint scanners and facial recognition software to get around complicated passwords the research predicts that this year mobile users will download 6 million apps that are equipped to support biometrics in other news nintendo announced that it's ending the club nintendo rewards program it's going to replace it with some other type of loyalty program in the future customers earned points for purchases and redeem them for small tokens like ringtones or shirts and Microsoft's going to soon reveal more details about the next operating syst Windows 10 at an event on wednesday Microsoft's going to show off how Windows 10 works on desktops tablets phones and how it connects to the xbox one it's designed to be much less annoying than Windows 8 by bringing back some familiar navigation features from windows 7 that means it'll have a start menu and it will actually look like a desktop computer when you have the keyboard attached and then you can have a touchscreen tile thing when it's a tablet we may likely also learn about a whole new type of internet browser that's separate from Internet Explorer be sure to log on to cnet com on Wednesday to follow the live coverage from Microsoft's headquarters starting at nine a.m. pacific noon eastern that your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey