Dangerous Passwords

Excerpt from Huffington Post article
Top 10 WORST Internet Passwords

• Forty-two percent of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to z”; only 6 percent mixed alpha-numeric and other characters.
  
  • http://news.yahoo.com/top-25-worst-passwords-revealed-151729593–abc-news-tech.html
• An attack that exposed 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords yielded similar findings.
  • According to a researcher who examined the leaked data, “123456” was the most frequently used password, appearing 64 times in total.
• The recent hack of the website RockYou exposed around 32 million user passwords, which data security firm Imperva has analyzed to create a list of the worst passwords.
• http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/10000-passwords/

Many of the top 20 passwords used were Spanish names, such as Alejandra and Alberto, suggesting that the victims were in Spanish-speaking communities. Nearly 2,000 of the passwords were only six characters long. The longest password was 30 characters — lafaroleratropezoooooooooooooo.

Want to know what terms to avoid?

Here are the top ten most commonly used passwords (see the full list of the top 20 in the charts below):

 

 

Excerpt above from original Huffington Post article

.