hey there every one, how's every thing ?
I was wondering, what are the most common passwords used by people on the internet ?
For example people use things like:
- password
- password1
- 123456
.... and so on
so can any one tell me more on this issue
and thanks a lot
most common used passwords
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As cats said usually it parents names or children and even if you tell them to mix it up alpha numeric they only add the year of birth etc to the end. Most of the time people are able to guess the passwords rather than brute force just takes a little patience and a little social engineering.
As cats said usually it parents names or children and even if you tell them to mix it up alpha numeric they only add the year of birth etc to the end. Most of the time people are able to guess the passwords rather than brute force just takes a little patience and a little social engineering.
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An even greater flaw in weak passwords - people reuse the same password for all their other accounts! So once you crack their YIM login, chances are it will work in their email and bank weblogin!
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ok guys, i decided to update this post with some data, and some twisted evil
any way, i know this is illegal, so im not going to post how I did it, or what i did, but ( but its nice to know such data ) I came up with the following results:
in a list of randomly chosen hotmail contacts
49 out of 9077 contacts have the password set as 123456
which is equivalent to 0.539%
any way, i know this is illegal, so im not going to post how I did it, or what i did, but ( but its nice to know such data ) I came up with the following results:
in a list of randomly chosen hotmail contacts
49 out of 9077 contacts have the password set as 123456
which is equivalent to 0.539%