Worst passwords in the world in 2013

The number sequence "123456" has overtaken "password" as the most common worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says.

Releasing its annual Worst Passwords list, SplashData said it was the first time "password" had lost its number-one position, changing places with its numerical rival.

In third place was "12345678," unchanged from 2012, while "qwerty" and "abc123" came in fourth and fifth -- and "iloveyou" climbed two spots to number nine.

Swinging the results, SplashData said, was a major security breach involving Adobe software that laid bare the widespread use of weak passwords among users of such Adobe products as Photoshop.

"Seeing passwords like 'adobe123' and 'photoshop' on this list (for the first time) offers a good reminder not to base your password on the name of the website or application you are accessing," said SplashData chief executive Morgan Slain, whose company markets password management apps.

Like other password experts, SplashData encouraged Internet users to opt for "passphrases" -- a bunch of random words, numbers and characters, like "smiles_like_skip?" -- that are easy to remember, but harder for online scam artists to crack.
 
Common passwords for chicks are : (if you are forced to change pw every 30 days)

hubby's name+current month+current year
or
Son's name+current month+current year.

Easy to crack :whistle:
 
nelwa said:
How weird, when I type my facebook password on mybroadband.co.za in a post, it shows up as ********* does this work for anybody else?
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Let me guess: obscenity?:whistle:
 
IMO you're more likely to be phished for your password than someone brute forcing it.
Like my Facebook password was really "abc123" for a couple of years and no one ever (as far as I know ofc) hacked my account, where as numerous of my friends' accounts got "hacked".

I would just recommend that you use different passwords, especially on non HTTPS websites or websites that you cannot trust 100%. Like many websites still store the passwords in the clear, where it could potentially be stolen and used.
 
Have we not seen this news like 5 times :P or about the same news?
 
"One way to create more secure passwords that are easy to recall is to use passphrases — short words with spaces or other characters separating them. It’s best to use random words rather than common phrases. For example, “cakes years birthday” or “smiles_light_skip?”"

NOOOOO bad advice, do not delimit your phrases with "_" or whatever. Its so much easier to use the delimiter to separate out the three words into smaller easier to crack words using dictionary lookup. "smileslightskip" is still human readable but no clues given to computer as to the individual word separation, and a much longer single word == harder to crack.
 
squid66 said:
NOOOOO bad advice, do not delimit your phrases with "_" or whatever. Its so much easier to use the delimiter to separate out the three words into smaller easier to crack words using dictionary lookup. "smileslightskip" is still human readable but no clues given to computer as to the individual word separation, and a much longer single word == harder to crack.
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How do you figure that? Whoever is doing the cracking has no knowledge of what or where the delimiters are. So how can it be cracked with shorter, easier words?

Shouldn't "smiles_light_skip" be harder to crack than "smiles_light_skip"? Since it is 2 characters longer, and it contains special characters.
 
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