{"id":32308,"date":"2011-08-25T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32308"},"modified":"2011-08-25T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T08:23:03","slug":"military-strength-password-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/32308-military-strength-password-think-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Military strength password? Think again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband recently published an article which listed the most commonly used passwords and PINs<\/a>, highlighting the need for a strong password policy.<\/p>\n

Current password policies typically require people to use mixed capitals, characters, and so on and avoid keyboard series (such as QWERTY), number series (such as 123456) and people\u2019s names (such as James or Jessica).<\/p>\n

New research from online security firm Imperva<\/a> shows that a good password policy can still be circumvented with patterns.<\/p>\n

Imperva\u2019s analysis of military passwords, which were governed by a strong password policy requiring a mix of numbers, letters and characters, showed clear patterns.<\/p>\n

The top passwords were:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. !QAZ2WSX<\/li>\n
  2. 1QAZ!QAZ<\/li>\n
  3. 1QAZ@WSX<\/li>\n
  4. ZAQ!2WSX<\/li>\n
  5. 1QAZ!QAZ2WSX@WSX<\/li>\n
  6. 1QAZZAQ!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Seem secure? Think again. Take the first password and type it on your keyboard. A clear pattern emerges very quickly.<\/p>\n

    \"Password<\/a>

    Password keyboard pattern<\/p><\/div>\n

    \u201cWe aren\u2019t the only ones who are taking note.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a screenshot from a hacker forum where someone not as sweet as we are doing a similar analysis,\u201d Imperva said in a blog post.<\/p>\n

    \"Military<\/a>

    Military passwords<\/p><\/div>\n

    \u201cEnforcing strong passwords means anticipating all kinds of keyboard sequences,\u201d said Imperva.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe recommend the passphrase. Passphrases are generally stronger, and a clearly better choice in these cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cFirst, they usually are (and always should be) much longer\u201420 to 30 characters or more is typical\u2014making some kinds of brute force attacks entirely impractical. More importantly, they are easier to remember and harder to crack,\u201d Imperva concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    New research by Imperva shows that even good password policies can result in easy-to-crack passwords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32314,"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":[35,4030,3676],"class_list":["post-32308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-headline","tag-imperva","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32342,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308\/revisions\/32342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}