Tuesday, December 21, 2010

the most common pass words

Now are the world of passwords. I have more then 10 passwords to remember, 3 pin numbers for my banks' Auto Teller machines, 2 for the internet banking. Then I have to remember the office's door combination, the emails passwords, the facebooks and other social networks. It is really hard to keep tract with all these.

So who be blamed if a person sort to 'easy-to-remember' password, there risk  is there, but if he does not do it, there is a bigger risk to forget the passwords.

A research had found out the the most common passwords are:

1. 123456
2. 1234
3. 123456789

That is easy, so every password, I will just use this.

So if you are a hacker, then worth trying these password. When I was working in an airline, the most common password is 'password'. So we tried it on the email, well not to bad, a success rate of about 10%, that was before, the e-mail administrator decided to disable all the common password, so we cannot use the words such as 1234, abcde or password.

But there are choices, you can select 3 good passwords and use them for all your requirement. So you about the most common passwords. It will be safer.

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