Showing posts with label password protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label password protection. Show all posts

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!