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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Common Passwords One Should Not Use on Internet


A data security firm has published the commonly used passwords on the net.
Imperva analysed around 32 million passwords that had been exposed in a recent hack of the RockYou website. Last year a hacker had breached the site's company database, gaining access to the usernames and passwords of all its 32 million users. Now, after studying the breach, the firm has come up with a list of the commonly used passwords which one should avoid. Everyone needs to understand that with minimal effort, a hacker can gain access to a new account every second-or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes said Amichai Shulman, Imperva's chief technical officer. People using the same passwords on Facebook and Twitters that they use in the workplace bringing the possibility of compromising the security of theenterprise specially if they are using easy to crack passwords like '123456. So it's high time for everyone of us to take password security seriously; as it's an important first step in data security.
The most commonly used passwords analysed in the study were:

1. 123456

2. 12345

3. 123456789

4. Password

5. iloveyou

6. princess

7. rockyou

8. 1234567

9. 12345678

10. abc123

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