10 most dangerous passwords
February 2nd, 2010 by admin, 13 Comments »
Internet security firm Imperva recently unveiled a list of most commonly used passwords on the Web, which it say are also the most `unsafe’ passwords. The list is based on Imperva’s analysis of 32 million passwords.
Read on to find out the 10 most easily hacked passwords.
123456, 12345
Amichai Shulman, of internet security firm Imperva, said, “With only minimal effort, a hacker can gain access to one new account every second — or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes. “Everyone needs to understand what poor passwords mean in today’s world of automated cyber attacks.
123456789, password
Security experts at Imperva suggest taking a sentence and transforming it into a non-existent word. For instance “This little piggy went to market” might become “tlpWENT2m”.
The fourth most vulnerable password is the word ‘Password’ itself.
iloveyou, princess
According to the study, nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on). Researchers advice mix upper and lower-case letters, numbers and even symbols such as %,* or $.
rockyou, 1234567
Rockyou is followed by 1234567 at No 8.
12345678, abc123
Researchers at security firm Imperva advice to use a different password for all sites. Also, the password should contain at least eight characters. The report reveals that just one half of the passwords contained seven or less characters. A staggering 30% of users chose passwords whose length was equal to or below six characters.
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February 23, 2010 at 12:44 am.
Хотелось бы видеть надпись to be continied
March 2, 2010 at 9:25 pm.
My password is 45 characters long with just 5 of these characters being letters… I think I’m safe.
March 14, 2010 at 7:37 pm.
It said 10 and there are onley 9.
March 17, 2010 at 7:37 pm.
@Silensedge
Having a random password with more LETTERS is much safer than one which is number-heavy. There are 26 possible letters, but only 10 numbers.
March 17, 2010 at 11:04 pm.
No, there’s ten. Each section is two passwords.
I think the confusion you have is that the word “password” is one of the common passwords.
March 18, 2010 at 4:16 pm.
Maybe you should try to count them again.
March 18, 2010 at 6:19 pm.
Dip Shit Dave, maybe YOU should go count them again.
March 20, 2010 at 1:32 pm.
Want an easy way to create good passwords?
Get a list of Ma Bell’s old exchange names and dredge your memory for an old phone number.
Klondike5-1234 (or whatever) is not only fairly strong, but very easy to remember.
And if someone would like to find out what my grandma’s phone number was when I visited her as a small child, you can take a shot at my password.
March 23, 2010 at 12:51 am.
cool news.
robes
April 5, 2010 at 6:09 pm.
It’s really well done! Respect to author.
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June 1, 2010 at 11:11 am.