Some of the biggest problems faced by technology or IT infrastructure is password hacking. As the technology is growing day by day the usage of internet is increasing. So, different people create their own ids and give some password to manage the account. But, there is a team who are called as hackers whose work is just to hack the password created by email users.
One team of Wall Street Journal called as Data-crew team had analyzed some hacked data which were collected by them. They looked at a sample of 188,279 passwords that was decrypted and made public.
Among the most common passwords they found in the list:
• “123456.” This was actually the most popular password of all. As far as I can tell, this indicates one of two things: (a) Lots of people are careless about security; (b) Lots of Gawker accounts belong to Elmo.
• “password.” The second most popular password in the list. Evidently, some folks interpret the “Password” prompt as a CAPTCHA field.
• “lifehack.” Did someone order an extra-large helping of irony?
• “qwerty.” When in doubt, just run your fingers across the keyboard.
• “monkey.” One of the more curious items in Gawker’s password database.
• “letmein.” When you think about it, it really is quite impressive: After all these years, this computing classic is still in style.
• “trustno1.” Right. Especially people who use passwords like “trustno1.”
• “passw0rd.” Oh, do you see what they did there? It’s like “password,” but not. Good one.
• “cheese.” Mmm…cheese. What were we talking about, again?
If you are registered Gawker user go and read the basic password hygiene or just grab on the Lastpass named one of PC’s worlds Best Products of 2009. This will generate complex passwords for you and store them in the cloud.
