{"id":17487,"date":"2012-10-27T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2012-10-27T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:15:54","slug":"do-you-use-a-stupidly-easy-to-guess-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/27\/do-you-use-a-stupidly-easy-to-guess-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you use a stupidly easy-to-guess password?"},"content":{"rendered":"

SplashData<\/a> has released an updated list of the top 25 passwords gleaned by hackers from stolen password files:<\/p>\n

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#<\/b><\/td>\nPassword<\/b><\/td>\nChange from 2011<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\npassword<\/td>\nUnchanged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n123456<\/td>\nUnchanged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n12345678<\/td>\nUnchanged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nabc123<\/td>\nUp 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nqwerty<\/td>\nDown 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nmonkey<\/td>\nUnchanged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nletmein<\/td>\nUp 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\ndragon<\/td>\nUp 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n111111<\/td>\nUp 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nbaseball<\/td>\nUp 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\niloveyou<\/td>\nUp 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\ntrustno1<\/td>\nDown 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n1234567<\/td>\nDown 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nsunshine<\/td>\nUp 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nmaster<\/td>\nDown 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n123123<\/td>\nUp 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nwelcome<\/td>\nNew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nshadow<\/td>\nUp 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nashley<\/td>\nDown 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nfootball<\/td>\nUp 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\njesus<\/td>\nNew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\nmichael<\/td>\nUp 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\nninja<\/td>\nNew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\nmustang<\/td>\nNew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\npassword1<\/td>\nNew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you recognize any password on this list … do yourself a favour and change it to something not on the list<\/em>, preferably using more characters (including upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols). And don’t use the same password on multiple sites! SplashData sells a password keeper application that is quite useful (I’ve been using it for years now), and is available for multiple platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SplashData has released an updated list of the top 25 passwords gleaned by hackers from stolen password files: # Password Change from 2011 1 password Unchanged 2 123456 Unchanged 3 12345678 Unchanged 4 abc123 Up 1 5 qwerty Down 1 6 monkey Unchanged 7 letmein Up 1 8 dragon Up 2 9 111111 Up 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[156,129,58,836,334],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fail","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-passwords","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17492,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}