Thursday, February 12, 2009
Passwords are most used in USA'1234 'and' password '
Posted by Lesbond at Thursday, February 12, 2009
A survey revealed on Wednesday that the United States over the passwords used on the Internet are little original'1234 'and' password '(' password '), which may facilitate the intrusion of hackers.
According to the statistical review of a record 28,000 passwords stolen by a pirate in a popular U.S. website and published online, Internet users in general seem to choose the easiest.
More than one quarter of Internet users (16%) simply choose a name as a password, generally about themselves or their children, according to the study published in the 'web' Information Week.
14% will rely on a simple progression in the keyboard mnemonic type'1234 ','12345678' or "QWERTY" keyboard for English. 5%, especially younger ones, choose a TV show or a celebrity for your password. The 'open sesame' fashionable are 'Hannah', inspired by the favorite of the young singer, Hannah Montana, 'Pokemon', 'Matrix' and 'Ironman'.
4% of Internet users are content to choose the word 'password' ( 'password'), sometimes with a subtle variation of type 'Password1,' but it fails to arrest the pirates.
Some rebels (3%) choose a type of message would reply: 'I do not care' ( 'I do not care'), 'Whatever' ( 'whatever'), 'Yes' or' No '.
Other selected emotional expressions like: 'iloveyou' ( 'I love you') but also 'Ihateyou' ( 'I hate you').
To better protect themselves from intruders, Robert Graham of Errata Security Company, who published the study, advisable to choose passwords that contain "at least 8 characters, a capital letter and a symbol or a number."
