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Top Common Password Being Used and Women Uses Better Password Than Men

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Oct
26
2009

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.


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    • amit raina

      good article

    • David

      Interesting thought Raymond.

    • Ajay

      Nice Info.

    • http://www.komputertoday.blogspot.com Gunawan

      that’s the fact
      i never like that
      but, i recently using same password for email and etc..
      that’s the the problem

    • http://www.ahmasud.com/ Masud @ ahmasud.com

      pretty cool and Interesting article

    • Mox

      During a recent password audit, it was
      found that a blonde was using the
      following
      password:

      MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy

      When asked why such a
      big password, she said
      that it had to be at least 8
      characters long.

    • Ricardo

      I used to use one word that is listed in both lists. But I use some combination of upper and lower cases and most of time, it’s being used in some “one-time visit” forum and so on.
      Emails and important accounts always have letters, numbers and symbols, if available. And always mixing cases.

    • rahaswarup

      interesting review ray!

    • Mika

      Just to comment on this one, I am male and I do infact use randomhradtoremember passwords for important accounts like steam, email and so on. However I do use simple passwords for non-important stuff similar to gaming forums and such where my account doesnt possess admin-privaligies.

      Good day sir and keep this blog alive.

    • venkat

      yah u r right raymond.

    • Raikurion

      I ROFLed when I saw this

      Hahaha Nice find Raymond

    • satyajit

      Sometimes this type of blog entry helps keep tedium at bay (though I’ve read about it in the The Telegraph—one of the leading News papers in India)

    • sekebun

      heh…heh..heh.. busted… got to change other password.. what would it be…

    • Ram Agarwal

      Interesting Article Reymond……..

      Thanks.

    • Phil

      I recently switched (about July 2009) to KeePass which runs on windows, linux, mac, bsd, solaris and is open source.

      http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/

      You can generate strong passwords right inside the program. I was one of those kind of people who had a black book with all kinds of scribbled nonsense in it. After about 4 months I have most of my passwords entered into KeePass. Trust me when I say it has not been fun getting the data into keepass from my black book, but the benefit far outweighs the initial annoyance.

      I also love the fact it’s cross platform. Show up with a database on any platform and boom instant access to all your stuff.

      This means if your using say sun’s virtual box to run three hypervisors (or virtual machines) you can have passwords for banking separated from just blogging or shopping. This again raises your entire networks security level.

      I warn you though, switching over to a tool like keepass isn’t easy, there’s a certain amount of discipline involved in getting the data entered in, and afterwards as the database now becomes extremely important–a current backup.

      Literally everything will be lost if the data base file is destroyed. Putting it on you to decide how to back it up. And it’s important you do back it up somewhere else besides your computer.

      The benefit is, you can walk around from box to box, with all your passwords regardless of the platform. And since you no longer need to maintain lists in Opera, IE, Firefox, each of these can be, and should be cleansed.

      While some might argue there are passwords out there you don’t care about, technically I think you’ll find you really don’t want someone else acting in your name on the web, while it might be only an annoyance, and no matter how insignificant, it is better to avoid it from the start.

      Eventually you’ll want to add other passwords, like IRC, FTP, SSH, it’s not hard, just start a new group.

      If you spend time sorting, classifying and organizing all of your passwords it does take your system’s security up a notch. Also if you get hit by something which is stealing your passwords, I found I can quickly (within about an hour) have every single important password replaced. Speed is important when your servers passwords are potentially compromised.

      Since the files simply install to the directory of your choice. You have nothing to lose to check it out.

    • duckne55

      just make it as long as possible and not a word or combination of words. the longer the password, the better it is protected from a brute force attack, and the less words you use the less likely a dictionary attack will work.
      the rest is bullshit.

    • nivek_hcerg

      Well, AI RoboForm is a password manager amongst others, and it has a password generator.

    • J. L.

      LastPass could be used to generate and store passwords as well. Also, the site can be accessed from any browser on any computer. I barely remember the last time I had to type a password online.

    • http://whatsmypass.com will

      Thanks for linking my site today :)
      I hope your readers find some useful tips at mine as they do your site.
      Your site is in my list of everyday sites to visit.

    • Ashish Mundhra

      I am using lastpass and am pretty satisfied with it

    • manyameera

      may be i am one of them

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