Published 15:22 IST, May 1st 2019

According to UN & World Bank, there are more mobile phones than humans in the world. Read report here

Thanks to the Internet and its affordability, the world recorded more mobile phones than the people using it, according to the latest data from the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the World Bank, and the UN.

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Thanks to Internet and its affordability, world recorded more mobile phones than people using it, according to latest data from United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), World Bank, and UN.

ITU estimated 107 mobile cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in 2018, which basically means more mobile phones than people.

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At end of year, 51.2 per cent of global population, or 3.9 billion people were using Internet, while an estimated 5.28 billion mobile broband subscriptions in world were recorded.

A dece ago, 753 million individuals were using Internet in developed nations, compared to 1,028 million in developing nations. Interestingly, re are 2,868 million individuals in developing nations as of 2018 compared to 794 million in developed nations.

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Re: Cyber Study Reveals 'millions Of Users Have 123456, 1111111, 123456789 Easy-to-guess Passwords Which Le To Danger Of Being Exploited'. Re Full List Here

Earlier, a study by UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) uncovered gaps in cyber-kwledge that may leave people in danger of being exploited. anylisis says that millions of people are still using easy-to-guess passwords like “123456” and “qwerty” on sensitive accounts which can be dangerous. 

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NCSC said people should string three random but memorable words toger to use as a strong password.

For its first cyber-survey, NCSC analysed public databases of breached accounts to see which words, phrases and strings people used: 

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  • Top of list was 123456, appearing in more than 23 million passwords
  • second-most popular string, 123456789, was t much harder to crack
  • Ors in top five included “qwerty”, “password” and 1111111
  • most common name to be used in passwords was Ashley, followed by Michael, Daniel, Jessica and Charlie, report found

When it comes to Premier League football teams in guessable passwords, Liverpool are champions and Chelsea are second. Blink-182 topped charts of music acts.

(With inputs from ncies) 

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15:22 IST, May 1st 2019