Posted on 11/20/2011 5:02:59 PM PST by freespirited
If password is your password, chances are youve been the victim of a hack attack.
Password is the least successful, according to SplashDatas 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.
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I know! Why Rush is always talking about it. He says we should lock our lives or something like that.
Look at the keyboard above your left hand.
Whew, 09876 is safe!
111111 made the list but 101010 didn’t? Why not?
Nowadays, they usually lock the accounts after 10 consecutive unsuccessful attempts.
I use my SoSecurity Number. No one will ever guess it!
I'd have to cut and paste that one... no way I could type that many letters without a typo.
They've done that for a long time. You work around that by using proxies and fooling the system into thinking it is a new, unique attempt. You would also have a list of thousands of usernames so quite a bit of time would pass between attempts.
When I started working at this software company, you set up a password and kept it forever. Then, management levels increased, and a policy was established that passwords had to be changed every 90 days. So I used my old password and added a single digit number at the end which I changed every 90 days from 1 to 9, and then back again from 1 to 9. Then, more management levels were added (that’s how it works, pal!), a new policy, and a program was installed to disallow passwords that had been ever used in the past. What to do? I used my old password then added a number from 1 to 9 somewhere in the middle, and then after 9 iterations 1 to 9 somewhere else in the middle.
GortKlaatuBaradaNikto
Yeah, I did. Here it is! Now what?
My last password, no longer used, was SrH4PrZnOne2, but since she bowed out, I chose another one. Besides, that used to be hard but nowadays it can still be cracked.
Anyone who can guess the password I am using now is going to have to use a computer and spend a lot of time working at it. It’s tough enough that even though I can remember it easily, I still have trouble entering it error free.
Three separate memory clues, special characters, numerals and a reference to a favorite science fiction novel from my childhood days — long out of print.
I'll bet thousands of 'Palin2012' passwords have been changed lately, many of them right here. My 'FredKarger2012' is still good, though. No chance of anyone guessing that one.
I have a lot of old phone numbers and addresses that for some reason still encoded in my brain. For example, my grandmother’s phone # (she died in 1977). They used words for prefixes back then - for example an old friend’s phone number was GEneva34278. I figure as long as I have that now useless info stored in my mind, I may as well put it to good use.
Another good way to get a password is to type the first letter of each word of a song or poem you know. For example, the first two lines of Dover Beach becomes,
tsictttiftmlfutb
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work if you need numbers in your password. I guess if you knew what year a song was done, you could add that.
I would think the A-circumflex would make a password pretty secure. Maybe you shouldn’t use it both fore and aft, though.
ÂashleyÂ
ÂmichaelÂ
ÂmonkeyÂ
ÂshadowÂ
Âabc123Â
Âtrustno1Â
Thank God they haven’t screwed up “Open Sesame” either ;-)
A different one for every site you visit? Plus you change it every 30 days, too?
Another bad one would be;
Z4QQQ and the Batman symbol.
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