{"id":110666,"date":"2014-10-06T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110666"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T09:32:41","slug":"worst-passwords-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/110666-worst-passwords-in-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Worst passwords in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent targeted attack on iCloud users, which led to the release of nude celebrity photos, was partly successful because of weak passwords.<\/p>\n

Apple said in a statement that celebrity accounts were \u201ccompromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords, and security questions\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Apple statement suggested that easy-to-guess passwords were to blame in some of the cases where celebrity accounts were hacked.<\/p>\n

Weak passwords are often to blame when hackers gain access to password protected services, which raises the question: which passwords should you avoid using?<\/p>\n

Common passwords not to use<\/h3>\n

It is speculated that iBrute was used to hack into the aforementioned iCloud accounts. This service uses 500 of the most popular passwords globally<\/strong><\/a>, which were leaked by RockYou.<\/p>\n

The ten most common passwords on the RockYou list are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Password1<\/li>\n
  2. Princess1<\/li>\n
  3. P@ssw0rd<\/li>\n
  4. Passw0rd<\/li>\n
  5. Michael1<\/li>\n
  6. Blink182<\/li>\n
  7. !QAZ2wsx<\/li>\n
  8. Charlie1<\/li>\n
  9. Anthony1<\/li>\n
  10. 1qaz!QAZ<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The RockYou password list is only one of many compilations of the most common passwords in the world.<\/p>\n

    Trustwave also produced<\/strong><\/a> a recent list of passwords to avoid, where it used Active Directory environments to gather hashed passwords which they set out to crack.<\/p>\n

    By using a simple dictionary attack, they recovered 53.97 percent of passwords within just a few minutes.<\/p>\n

    \u201cSuch a short cracking time using a word list from last year\u2019s study shows that passwords were as predictable as ever,\u201d Trustwave said.<\/p>\n

    The ten most common passwords from the Trustwave experiment are listed below.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Password1<\/li>\n
    2. Hello123<\/li>\n
    3. password<\/li>\n
    4. Welcome1<\/li>\n
    5. banco@1<\/li>\n
    6. training<\/li>\n
    7. Password123<\/li>\n
    8. job12345<\/li>\n
    9. spring<\/li>\n
    10. food1234<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Trustwave also listed some valuable insights into what type of passwords are used, as shown in the images below.<\/p>\n

      \"Passwords<\/a>

      Passwords – L = lowercase letter, U= uppercase letter, and N = number<\/p><\/div>\n

      \"Password<\/a>

      Password compositions<\/p><\/div>\n

      More on passwords<\/h3>\n

      Worst passwords to use<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

      Worst passwords in the world revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

      Bad online passwords: are you guilty?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      If you use any of the passwords on this list, you are at serious risk of being hacked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26948,35,607,3676,26950,20747],"class_list":["post-110666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-common-passwords","tag-headline","tag-icloud","tag-passwords","tag-rockyou","tag-trustwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110674,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666\/revisions\/110674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}