Most Commonly Used “Crackable” Passwords On The Internet
Posted By Keith Dsouza On March 20, 2009 @ 1:23 pm In Tips And Tricks | 1 Comment
The biggest problem with creating internet accounts is setting strong passwords for them, many users are lazy enough to create guessable and crackable passwords for their accounts, with the most common ones being 123456, password, 1234, testingand so on.
These passwords are easily hackable, by using a simple brute force attack, we do have some suggestions for users to create strong passwords [1] for your accounts.
In the meantime, you can checkout the 500 most commonly used passwords on the internet, if you are using any of them, its high time you change it to something less guessable :-).
Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time [2] [via [3]]
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[1] create strong passwords: http://techie-buzz.com/how-to/create-strong-passwords-that-you-can-remember.html
[2] Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time: http://www.whatsmypass.com/?p=415
[3] via: http://coolonline.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/123456-most-used-internet-pwd/
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