Here’s something different to share with you all today. I was browsing the Internet and stumbled on two interesting websites that provides reports on “Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time” and “Distribution of passwords between men and women“. From this two reports, I get to learn what are the most common bad password that normally people use and also I know that most of these lousy guessable passwords are used by men. These passwords seemed to be the same whenever an account database is analyzed.
Choosing a good password
Do you know that the all time most used password is 123456? I didn’t know that until today and I have to admit that I am one of them that uses passwords like “123456″ or “password” out of convenience but I only use them when I felt that the account is not important and I have no problem losing it.

I know a big percentage of this blog site’s visitors are men, so ask yourself whether are you using any of the password listed in the 2 reports? If yes, then I’d advice you to change your password to a better one which cannot be brute forced by a dictionary list. A good password is something that you cannot find in dictionary which consist of at least 8 characters of numbers and words.

You shouldn’t also rely on those password generators because they generate totally random characters and chances are you won’t even remember them unless you write it down somewhere. Forgetting your password and trying to recover them back is a hassle too.

[tags]password, bruteforce, dictionary, login, username[/tags]