Friday, January 22, 2010

Is Your Password Too Easy

The New York Times published a list of the most popular passwords that protect very sensitive data. Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva, examined a list of 32 million passwords that an unknown hacker stole last month from RockYou. RockYou is a company that makes software to helps block hackers.

The list includes:
  • 123456
  • 12345
  • 123456789
  • password
  • iloveyou
  • princess
  • rockyou
  • abc123
  • 654321
  • 111111
  • michael

The article shows the top 32. I have to go now and change some things, hope this helped!