Posted on 01/20/2016 6:32:44 AM PST by 5150 FREEPER
Internet security software firm SplashData has released its annual list of passwords of the worst and most common passwords that you absolutely must not use. If you use any of the ones we list below, you must change them immediately.
They might be easier for you to remember, but they are also equally as easy for hackers to guess. Indeed, many of them are probably preset by malicious software algorithms looking to get into your accounts.
So if you have any wish to keep your money in your bank, your Twitter or Facebook accounts your own, or don't want a spouse to find out about your extramarital affair, the list contains the passwords you need to avoid.
Microsoft has some good tips on how to choose safe, alternative passwords. It says that a good password should be eight or more characters long, not be your user name, real name or company name, and, in fact, not contain a complete word at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
There is a site where you can enter your password and it will tell you how long it will take to crack.
My server password was measured in billions of years.
Got me to laugh on that one.
Mixing in different foreign language words also helps.
notmypassword
I know a lot who do and support quite a few of them. Scary considering the higher positions some of them are in.
I’m getting more into oddball pass phrases myself.
In a couple of months, I hope to take the Security plus test and try to get away from break/fix. Granted I have been blessed to have a good job paying well for help desk and fixing stuff but I can do better.
Your name spelled backwards? (One of my friends does this.)
Better would be, for sites that allow long passwords, to use a phrase. Easy to remember (so you don't have to write it down where somebody might find it), and very hard to crack by brute-force methods. Or things of the form "friend's nickname followed by his phone number"
That's a neat site. People go there, and the site logs the password and the person's IP address. That log file would be worth money to somebody.
Nobody's going to figure that out, are they?
“Bosco”
“There is a site where you can enter your password and it will tell you how long it will take to crack.”
“My server password was measured in billions of years.”
What site is that? I would like to test my passwords.
I wrote a random password generator in (don’t laugh!) BASIC that will save a list of passwords to a file. On startup, the program asks how long the passwords should be, and how many passwords that I want. I re-seed the random number generator using a Time function before generating each random password - that assures randomness, because the Random function alone is not truly random. The resulting passwords consist of intermixed numbers and letters (upper and lower case). A compiled BASIC program is blazing fast on modern hardware. I can generate a million long passwords in minutes.
Any dictionary is an utterly disastrous source of passwords.
P@s$w3r6 !$ @ $t3P 1n +h3 r!g#T 6!Re(+i0n.
Add special characters like _ # = !
Try places you have lived and when
B0wi3Drm_1977
I used a Vietnamese password: "Phuc Hue".
Bowie, Maryland in 1977?
The network I log into won’t allow many of the special characters for passwords. IMIT refuses to explain why.
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