{"id":93091,"date":"2013-12-10T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=93091"},"modified":"2013-12-11T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T06:43:48","slug":"worst-passwords-in-the-world-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/93091-worst-passwords-in-the-world-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Worst passwords in the world revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Trustwave\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/549015-Trustwave\">Trustwave<\/a>\u2019s SpiderLabs recently published details of approximately two million compromised accounts, which included the most common passwords used online.<\/p>\n<p>According to Trustwave\u2019s SpiderLabs they discovered the credentials while investigating a server that cyber criminals use to control a massive network of compromised computers known as the \u201cPony botnet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of the compromised web log-ins belong to popular websites and services such as <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>, <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a>, <a title=\"Yahoo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363118-Yahoo\">Yahoo<\/a>, <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> and <a title=\"LinkedIn\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384025-LinkedIn\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company released some of the statistics regarding the compromised accounts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,580,000 website login credentials stolen<\/li>\n<li>320,000 email account credentials stolen<\/li>\n<li>41,000 FTP account credentials stolen<\/li>\n<li>3,000 Remote Desktop credentials stolen<\/li>\n<li>3,000 Secure Shell account credentials stolen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most used passwords<\/h3>\n<p>Trustwave\u2019s SpiderLabs said that the most commonly used passwords \u201cwere far from what your CISO would like to see\u201d. \u00a0Here are the most used (worse) passwords:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>123456<\/li>\n<li>123456789<\/li>\n<li>1234<\/li>\n<li>password<\/li>\n<li>12345<\/li>\n<li>12345678<\/li>\n<li>admin<\/li>\n<li>123<\/li>\n<li>1<\/li>\n<li>1234567<\/li>\n<li>111111<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Overall password strength<\/h3>\n<p>Trustwave\u2019s SpiderLabs said that their analysis shows that passwords that use all four character types and are longer than 8 characters are considered \u201cExcellent\u201d. Passwords with four or less characters of only one type are considered \u201cTerrible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, there were more terrible passwords than excellent ones, more bad passwords than good, and the majority, as usual, is somewhere in between in the Medium category,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93093\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-strength.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93093\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93093\" title=\"Password strength\" alt=\"Password strength\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-strength.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Password strength (from Spiderlabs)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Password report\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.spiderlabs.com\/2013\/12\/look-what-i-found-moar-pony.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The full report is available here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"2 million stolen passwords uncovered\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/93049-2-million-stolen-passwords-uncovered.html\"><strong>2 million stolen passwords uncovered<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/92469-data-spies-worry-over-snowdens-doomsday-cache.html\">Data spies worry over Snowden\u2019s \u201cdoomsday\u201d cache<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/92381-nato-launches-cyber-security-exercises.html\">NATO launches massive cyber-security exercises<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/92201-pirate-bay-hacker-to-be-handed-over.html\">Pirate Bay hacker to be handed over<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Trustwave\u2019s SpiderLabs using around 2 million passwords reveals the most common passwords globally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35,3676,22747,22749],"class_list":["post-93091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-headline","tag-passwords","tag-trustwaves-spiderlabs","tag-worse-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93091"}],"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=93091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93419,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93091\/revisions\/93419"}],"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=93091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}