Thursday, October 25, 2012

Top 25 Passwords of 2012

If you're guilty of using these, it's time to change!

I know occasionally even the best of us in IT still get lazy at times and use these silly passwords for something some where. This is just a repost, but I find it interesting and wanted to share the list again here.

Below is the list of the top 25 passwords and there position change in relation to last years ranking:

1   - password - Unchanged

2   - 123456 - Unchanged

3   - 12345678 - Unchanged

4   - abc123 - Up 1

5   - qwerty - Down 1

6   - monkey - Unchanged

7   - letmein - Up 1

8   - dragon - Up 2

9   - 111111 - Up 3

10 - baseball - Up 1

11 - iloveyou - Up 2

12 - trustno1 - Down 3

13 - 1234567 - Down 6

14 - sunshine - Up 1

15 - master - Down 1

16 - 123123 - Up 4

17 - welcome - New

18 - shadow - Up 1

19 - ashley - Down 3

20 - football - Up 5

21 - jesus - New

22 - michael - Up 2

23 - ninja - New

24 - mustang - New

25 - password1 - New

See the full article here: http://www.zdnet.com/top-25-common-attackable-passwords-stop-using-ninja-and-jesus-7000006373/

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