Let's Put This Baby To Bed!!
Less Than $2k To Go Green!!
Please Help End The FReepathon
Sponsoring FReepers are contributing
$10 Each time a New Monthly Donor signs up!
Get more bang for your FR buck!
Click Here To Sign Up Now!
Posted on 11/20/2011 5:02:59 PM PST by freespirited
If “password” is your password, chances are you’ve been the victim of a hack attack.
“Password” is the least successful, according to SplashData’s annual list of worst Internet passwords.
The list, notes Mashable.com, is somewhat predictable. Sequences of adjacent numbers or letters on the keyboard, such as “qwerty” and “123456,” and popular names, such as “ashley” and “michael,” all are common choices. Other common choices, such as “monkey” and “shadow,” are harder to explain.
As some websites have begun to require passwords to include both numbers and letters, it makes sense varied choices, such as “abc123″ and “trustno1,” have become popular choices.
SplashData created the rankings based on millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers. Here is the complete list:
1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football
SplashData CEO Morgan Slain urges businesses and consumers using any password on the list to change them immediately.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Whew, Do Re Me is safe.
123456?
That’s the same combo I use for my luggage!
This is my password to sign on here:
5m1y7FoSAAUpXKgK3ZycG9yiycw6KuAgVDOYedv8soyXhJ91Jbk6QjutXNg5dXJSag9pxZvARcDxMZlH
- Scyth
iamadumass does not show up on the list. Wonder why? Seems to fit
Jenny8675309 didn’t make the list?
Just don’t go with do re mi.
LOL! Another Spaceballs fan.
The hilarious thing is that people who use those passwords probably forget them.
I’m glad that “soccer” and “rugby” aren’t on there.
At least easylay is ok! ;-)
qwerty’s bad? There is no such word in the dictionary! How about qwerty123 (my evil sister’s password)?
*****
*******
**********
I started using * ******
Keeps me protected
Amazing how stupid people can be and why identity theft is taking off like wild fire!!!
Back when Yahoo games were popular we used to run programs that would take a list of Yahoo names that were no longer allowed (they called them “rares”)and would repeatedly log on with a list of passwords until you hit. It would then save the name and password to a list so later on you could go there, log in, change the password and make the name your own. I still have hundreds of these IDs listed somewhere, only nobody cares about them anymore. There was nothing malicious about this, the names were mostly abandoned for years before we recovered them. It was just a Yahoo policy to never delete a user name so we took advantage of it. Every single word on that top 25 list was on my list plus hundreds more.
If you want to protect your login it isn’t really necessary to come up with something so complicated you end up forgetting it. Just throw something in there that makes it not worth searching for with an automatic program. For example, if your password is “phillip” odds are someday someone will get you. If you change it to “ph7illip” it may as well be “p*%MHr4__G”, nobody is going to crack it.
Nowadays cracking programs aren’t used too often. The more common way to get a password is to trick you into giving it away via some phony login screen or phishing. So be careful when you get anything unexpected asking for a login.
Actually it is a college
QWERTY U
Bosco!!!
Dang. I’m using them all. This could take some time...
I don’t have a password at all on my hom Mac. Not much can be done without spoofing me into accepting it (and I do know better), nothing on there of interest, either. No CC numbers, nothing. It would be a very unproductive pursuit. Not even of value for a botnet, since it’s turned off better than half the time.
Now, the Windows PC at my office is another matter entirely.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.