PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent. This week’s connected kerfuffle comes courtesy of Gregory Shein, founder and CEO of software development firm Nomadic Soft . One of his clients made the fateful decision to prioritize convenience over security, leading to some serious data loss. The client in question wanted to “keep things simple” for their team, so they used the same administrative password for both staging and production environments. That password was the hard-to-guess combination of “admin123.” According to NordPass, which makes password management software and maintains a list of the 200 most common passwords , “admin123” is the 10th most popular password in the world.…