Top 10 passwords 2008
- 10th Apr 2008
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I just had a client send me a password, which I have told them they need to change, what made me laugh was Becky my wife said “it’s better than the old password” which was password .. lol, then that reminded me of the top 10 passwords ..
darkreading had these top 10 passwords :
1. (username)
2. (username)123
3. 123456
4. password
5. 1234
6. 12345
7. passwd
8. 123
9. test
10. 1
Threadwatch had in 2007
1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. blink182
10. (your first name)
modern life is rubbish has a UK List in 2006 :
1. 123
2. password
3. liverpool
4. letmein
5. 123456
6. qwerty
7. charlie
8. monkey
9. arsenal
10. thomas
But across europe the top 10 is still
1. Password
2. 12345
3. Football Club
4. Partners Name
5. letmein
6. Monkey
7. Own name
8. 1234
9. Qwerty
10. First school or Colour
and people wonder why their Blogs get hacked !!
DaveN
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To be fair, though a top 10 list will have stupid passwords only, it can represent only 1% of the total passwords in a database.
letmein…lol. That’s my new password.
Across Europe the #6 password is ‘monkey’ ????
Seems unlikely to me.
Either:
* They all started speaking English
* Monkey means ‘password’ in Esperanto, French, German, Italian or Spanish
* Johnny Vegas is better known than I suspected
* The survey had a flaw
Good thing I don’t use my name. It’d be doubly stupid.
Ahahaha. aha. hahahaha hahaha, haha HA HA HA. Oh dear..
The easiest thing to remember when you combine safety is someone’s name along with some birthdays (the actually dates). Combine two different people and you can easily remember them and no one should be able to figure it out (sammy0514).
LOL monkey!!! I have not thought of that one lol
Kind of flawed to look at it this way, as Michael said.
If you have a good password, the chances of it being duplicated are slim to none. If you have 100 users, 2 of them use 1234 as their password, and all the others are good passwords, suddenly 1234 becomes the #1 password and everyone shakes their head at how horrible peoples’ passwords in general are.
That said, a lot of people use stupid passwords.
[…] The top passwords of 2008. […]
I find these password used often as well
pass
trustno1
Password (Capital P)
Wow, they were cool ;) i think i should create one site/blog for how to create strong passwords
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That’s not true. You should pick a password that is random letters, number and special characters. Using a password that is someones name and some numbers is not nearly as secure but far better than “monkey” :P
I see this sort of thing all the time at my work (I work for an ISP). You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who think that [username]123 won’t be guessed…
And as for ‘letmein’… well that’s the password for a former colleague’s Adwords account. Oh man…
Anyway, in order to have complicated passwords that I can still remember, I created a system where I make up passwords using a pool of smaller groups of letters/words. The order they’re in depends on what the password is for, so if I forget it I can still figure it out.
Damn, people are so stupid sometimes.
How can somebody have “password” for password in 2008?
DaveN, I bet your password is DaveN. ;-)
Taking in consideration that english is not the the most spoken first language in europe. That european keyboards are not necessarily qwerty but qwertz and different combinations according to the languages. I would check the points you present as facts.