Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

04/27/07

Most Popular Passwords - Stop Using Them!

Filed under: Statistics — timwang @ 12:38:13 pm

PC Magazine (May 8th issue) releases the top ten passwords used on the Internet. I don't know how did they gather the data though... Anyway, here is the list:

1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. blink182
10. (your first name)

What's more important is stop using them ASAP. Because the most popular hacking method is "brutal force" (trying possible character combinations / words).

Comments:

Comment from: Mobile games [Visitor] Email · http://www.mobilclub.org/
Оh, "qwerty" is me favorite password
PermalinkPermalink 05/01/07 @ 05:52
Comment from: Wim [Visitor]
Or default passwords left unchanged: admin, games,....
PermalinkPermalink 02/04/08 @ 14:21

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