{"id":194414,"date":"2017-01-13T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=194414"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:08:42","slug":"do-not-use-your-name-in-your-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/194414-do-not-use-your-name-in-your-password.html","title":{"rendered":"Do not use your name in your password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cbtnuggets.com\/2016\/12\/leaky-logins-50000-passwords-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CBT Nuggets recently examined<\/strong><\/a> 50,000 emails and passwords that were leaked online, which showed that using your name in your passwords is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>CBT Nuggets analysed passwords for root words and easy-to-guess elements, and the results showed numerous commonly-used words and names.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked password data originated from the United States, which means that popular American names were used in numerous hacked passwords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most common names of those hacked are also the most common names in America \u2013 with Mike\/Michael, Chris\/Christopher, John\/Jonathan, and Dave\/David leading the pack,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Steering clear of using common words is the basis of a good password.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 50,000 passwords we analysed, the most commonly-used words were love, star, girl, angel, rock, miss, hell, Mike, and John.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHackers crack passwords by using commonly-used words, so we recommend steering clear of these popular terms, or even better, using nonsense words and letter-number combinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below are the most commonly-used words and names identified in the CBT Nuggets research.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top 10 words used in hacked passwords<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Love<\/li>\n<li>Star<\/li>\n<li>Girl<\/li>\n<li>Angel<\/li>\n<li>Rock<\/li>\n<li>Miss<\/li>\n<li>Hell<\/li>\n<li>Mike<\/li>\n<li>John<\/li>\n<li>Baby<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top 10 names used in hacked passwords<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Michael or Mike<\/li>\n<li>Chris or Christopher<\/li>\n<li>John or Jonathan<\/li>\n<li>Dave or David<\/li>\n<li>Matt or Matthew<\/li>\n<li>Jen or Jennifer<\/li>\n<li>Jason<\/li>\n<li>Dan or Daniel<\/li>\n<li>Brian<\/li>\n<li>Joe or Joseph<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/187039-most-popular-passwords-on-porn-sites.html\">Most popular passwords on porn sites<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research on leaked passwords shows that using your name, or common words, in your passwords is a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":187163,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35,3676],"class_list":["post-194414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-headline","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194414"}],"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=194414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194566,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194414\/revisions\/194566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}