Is Your Password Puny?

[MTI]

Security Breach Shows High Percentage of Weak Passwords

The most commonly used password? "123456." Here's the rest of the list, courtesy of Imperva:

123456
12345
123456789
Password
iloveyou
princess
rockyou
1234567
12345678
abc123


More disturbing, said Mr. Shulman, was that about 20 percent of people on the RockYou list picked from the same, relatively small pool of 5,000 passwords.

I don't even remember mine, they are all set up to autofill on my computers and phone.

[Aquaticedge]

there's a password that begins with P ends in S thats most of the time too short.. that's a common one too.

[MTI]

The passwords based on the first letters of a sentence seem reasonably strong.

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains. = Trisfmotp

We went to Disneyworld in 2009. = Wwtdi2009 if you need a numeric component

[MAG58]

At IU, where I go to college, it's a requirement for your school log on that it be a passphrase with a minimum of 4 words, each word must have at least two letters, and there must be spaces and one capital letter involved. It's a PITA.

Luckily for me I also misspelled a word which gives an extra level of security

[mpolli]

rockyou?

[280SE Guy]

Originally Posted by Aquaticedge

there's a password that begins with P ends in S thats most of the time too short.. that's a common one too.

This one?

[MTI]

Originally Posted by mpolli

rockyou?

Website: rockyou.com
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Founded: November, 2005
Funding: $119M

Netpickle maker of RockYou (originally named RockMySpace) creates and distributes self-expression widgets. The widgets can be used to enhance the look and feel of blogs, personal websites and personal pages on social networks such as Facebook

[strelnik]

Originally Posted by MAG58

At IU, where I go to college, it's a requirement for your school log on that it be a passphrase with a minimum of 4 words, each word must have at least two letters, and there must be spaces and one capital letter involved. It's a PITA.

Luckily for me I also misspelled a word which gives an extra level of security

I have worked as a PKI trusted agent for authentication and you would be amazed at how hard it is under some circumstances for people to make a strong password, so I actually made a 30 minute mandatory class for the execs after one of them got his identity stolen and we brought them all together and found out thirteen out of twenty had identical passwords for certain accounts!

[Fulcrum525]

Originally Posted by MTI

Security Breach Shows High Percentage of Weak Passwords

The most commonly used password? "123456." Here's the rest of the list, courtesy of Imperva:

123456
12345
123456789
Password
iloveyou
princess
rockyou
1234567
12345678
abc123


More disturbing, said Mr. Shulman, was that about 20 percent of people on the RockYou list picked from the same, relatively small pool of 5,000 passwords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95SXe3pZoY

[MAG58]

Originally Posted by strelnik

I have worked as a PKI trusted agent for authentication and you would be amazed at how hard it is under some circumstances for people to make a strong password, so I actually made a 30 minute mandatory class for the execs after one of them got his identity stolen and we brought them all together and found out thirteen out of twenty had identical passwords for certain accounts!

I know about 20 people with one of these two password combinations:

One two three four

Four three two one.

[pawoSD]

We use pretty cr3a7y 0n3s @ work.

[pj67coll]

Nah! Mine are pretty robust.

- Peter.

[Angel]

All of my passwords are racial slurs, words you can't say on the radio and the number "69"

=)


what pisses me off is when there are more than 4 different password standards so you must save them in your browser (if its a website) or write them down- neither of which is a method I trust.

-John

[Aquaticedge]

Originally Posted by 280SE Guy

This one?

ha ha! Yes