{"id":2454,"date":"2010-01-21T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:56:19","slug":"and-yet-more-on-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/and-yet-more-on-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"And yet more on passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is becoming a <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/passwords-and-the-average-user\/\" target=\"_blank\">quarterly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/more-on-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">topic<\/a> around here. Imperva has done some statistical analysis of the 32 million passwords which were exposed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-security.org\/secworld.php?id=8742\" target=\"_blank\">Rockyou.com security breach<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Key findings of the study include:<\/p>\n<p>* The shortness and simplicity of passwords means many users select credentials that will make them susceptible to basic forms of cyber attacks known as \u201cbrute force attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* Nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on). The most common password is \u201c123456\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>* Recommendations for users and administrators for choosing strong passwords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone needs to understand what the combination of poor passwords means in today\u2019s world of automated cyber attacks: with only minimal effort, a hacker can gain access to one new account every second\u2014or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes,\u201d explained Imperva\u2019s CTO Amichai Shulman.<\/p>\n<p>The report identifies the most commonly used passwords:<\/p>\n<p>1. 123456<br \/>\n2. 12345<br \/>\n3. 123456789<br \/>\n4. Password<br \/>\n5. iloveyou<br \/>\n6. princess<br \/>\n7. rockyou<br \/>\n8. 1234567<br \/>\n9. 12345678<br \/>\n10. abc123<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you go &mdash; all the tools you need to be a world-class password cracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is becoming a quarterly topic around here. Imperva has done some statistical analysis of the 32 million passwords which were exposed in the Rockyou.com security breach: Key findings of the study include: * The shortness and simplicity of passwords means many users select credentials that will make them susceptible to basic forms of cyber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[109,343,129,58,836,334],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-passwords","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","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=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16012,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/16012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}