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According to a study conducted by Imperva, the security of our Internet accounts is in serious danger. One in five users still use the digital equivalent of leaving a key under the doormat: a simple password to remember like "abc123" or even "password".
In reaching this conclusion reviewed the list with 32 million passwords that an anonymous hacker subtracted last December RockYou, a company that develops programs for users of social networks like Facebook or MySpace. The list was suspended for a short period of time on the internet, enough to hackers and security companies could download it.
The analysis revealed that about 50% of users used names, slang, dictionary words or trivial passwords, such as consecutive digits or adjacent keys. In particular almost 1% of the 32 million people had chosen "123456" as password. Other popular passwords are vulnerable "123456789", "12345", "1234567", "password", "iloveyou", "princess", "rockyou" and "abc123."
This implies that "with minimal effort, a hacker can access a new account every second or 1,000 accounts every 17 minutes", according to investigators. In other words, if your password is "123456" or "password", are "meat hacker."
In reaching this conclusion reviewed the list with 32 million passwords that an anonymous hacker subtracted last December RockYou, a company that develops programs for users of social networks like Facebook or MySpace. The list was suspended for a short period of time on the internet, enough to hackers and security companies could download it.
The analysis revealed that about 50% of users used names, slang, dictionary words or trivial passwords, such as consecutive digits or adjacent keys. In particular almost 1% of the 32 million people had chosen "123456" as password. Other popular passwords are vulnerable "123456789", "12345", "1234567", "password", "iloveyou", "princess", "rockyou" and "abc123."
This implies that "with minimal effort, a hacker can access a new account every second or 1,000 accounts every 17 minutes", according to investigators. In other words, if your password is "123456" or "password", are "meat hacker."