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The big Hollywood pictures always make breaking into computers look like a fabulously hip and complicated process. It involves excitement and ingenuity and often times, because it’s just so difficult and exciting, a bit of sweat on the brow. But in reality, it’s as easy as “123456”. And if that doesn’t work, we’d suggest trying “12345”, next.<\/p>\n
A report<\/a> released today looks at a list of 32 million passwords and what it finds doesn’t saying good things about most of us and our password practices.<\/p>\n Sponsor<\/em> The report, released by data security firm Imperva, works with real-world data to arrive at its finding. The 32 million passwords it uses as its data set were published on the Internet last month after being stolen from Rockyou.com.<\/p>\n Like children who won’t eat their vegetables, we obviously aren’t doing what we’re told when it comes to the basics of password security. While 30% of users chose passwords under the recommended minimum of six characters, 50% use common names, slang, and easy-to-guess things like consecutive series of numbers. Take a look at the top 20 passwords from the list below.<\/p>\n The report goes on to give a list of recommendations that, as it points out from the beginning, you probably won’t follow. Two previous studies of password-use, one in 1990 and another 10 years later showed that “password selection is strikingly similar.” <\/p>\n According to the data, a brute force attack would likely be able to access 1000 accounts in a mere 17 minutes.<\/p>\n Photo credit: danielleblue<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Discuss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The big Hollywood pictures always make breaking into computers look like a fabulously hip and complicated process. It involves excitement and ingenuity and often times, because it’s just so difficult and exciting, a bit of sweat on the brow. But in reality, it’s as easy as “123456”. And if that doesn’t work, we’d suggest trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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