ZDnet the most used passwords -- is yours one of them

*raises hand excitedly* "Sir, sir, I got 13/25, do I pass? Do I pass??"

Ahem. Wow, the combination of the first few numbers occurs repeatedly. That's disheartening. On the other hand, all of the words are common english words or names, sure makes me glad I use multilingual passphrases.

Mine arn't there not even close.

Not even close.

Use a mismash of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols to get the best out of passwords..... 15+ characters are also a bonus if allowed by the program/system...

F5ing said:

Wonder how Eset extracted those passwords?

They've got white-hat hackers on their payroll, like every other major agency in the world. That's how.

solarmystic said:

F5ing said:

Wonder how Eset extracted those passwords?

They've got white-hat hackers on their payroll, like every other major agency in the world. That's how.

Yeah, I guess in trying to see how malicious software does its work discovering passwords from hashes or whatever could be considered a part of their job duties. I just figured they would find more benign targets to do their testing and confirmation of success.

Then again I guess the only way to assure the widest array of setups/configurations they would have to target the outside world.