January 24, 2013

How Secure is Your Password?


In 2012 many websites being penetrated by hackers. Various motives background of this action. Ranging from fun, theft of data, until political motives. A leading pollsters, Deloitte, said that this year 90 percent of passwords were made ​​by humans susceptible to hacked. In fact, the password is considered safe by IT experts were also included in this part of the 90 percent.

Delloite also estimates have been many losses occur due to the weakness of security of this password. If indeed there is a person who 'naughty' because somebody might lose the money that eventually eliminate their interest to transact online.
Deloitte found that as long as the password is too short, it is still possible to hack the password. "Password length further strengthen the security of the password.'s Just that, people become more replacement to remember," said Jolyon Barker, Deloitte technology experts.
Barker also added that there was also followed by a good password authentication plated. This can be done by sending the password via SMS to the user's HP or smartphone. It could also use a device that is inserted through a USB port. It is better to use all the combinations that the user is allowed to create a password. The combination can be a mix of small and large letters, numbers, and unique characters.
Meanwhile, as reported by BGR (12/05/2012), in October 2012 and SplashData announced the 25 worst passwords in circulation in the world. Realizing this, RIM has finally issued a new innovation in their 10 BB handset.
Presenting SplashData’s “Worst Passwords of 2012”:
#              Password                Change from 2011
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


Blackberry mentioned 10 will feature more perfect than the Blackberry currently available. Security features such as, Blackberry 10 reportedly will restrict users to use passwords that are easy to track.
Later, users will not be able to use passwords like 123456 and qwerty Blackberry handsets 10 to protect them. This is done solely for the safety of the user handset itself.
Rapidberry itself released several passwords that are prohibited for use on the Blackberry 10. Password is among aaaaaa, 123456, or abcdef. Besides passwords are also about 100 more passwords are considered weak by RIM and will not be used on the Blackberry 10.
The complete list of forbidden passwords are:
  1. 123456
  2. 12345678
  3. 123abc
  4. 1a2b3c
  5. aaaaaa
  6. abc123
  7. abc1234
  8. abcdef
  9. amanada
  10. andrew
  11. angel
  12. asdfgh
  13. august
  14. avalon
  15. bandit
  16. barney
  17. baseball
  18. batman
  19. biteme
  20. brandy
  21. buster
  22. butthead
  23. calvin
  24. canada
  25. changeme
  26. chelsea
  27. coffee
  28. computer
  29. cowboy
  30. diamond
  31. donald
  32. dorothy
  33. dragon
  34. eeyore
  35. falcon
  36. fishing
  37. football
  38. freedom
  39. f***me
  40. f***you
  41. gandalf
  42. george
  43. harley
  44. hello
  45. helpme
  46. hockey
  47. iloveyou
  48. internet
  49. jennifer
  50. jonathan
  51. jordan
  52. letmein
  53. maggie
  54. marina
  55. master
  56. mattew
  57. merlin
  58. michael
  59. michelle
  60. mickey
  61. mike
  62. miller
  63. molson
  64. Monday
  65. monday
  66. monkey
  67. mustang
  68. natasha
  69. ncc1701
  70. newpass
  71. newyork
  72. pamela
  73. password
  74. patrick
  75. pepper
  76. piglet
  77. poohbear
  78. pookie
  79. princess
  80. qwerty
  81. rabbit
  82. rachel
  83. ranger
  84. rocket
  85. secret
  86. service
  87. shadow
  88. snoopy
  89. soccer
  90. sparky
  91. spring
  92. steven
  93. success
  94. summer
  95. sunshine
  96. thomas
  97. tiger
  98. trustno1
  99. victoria
  100. whatever
  101. wizard
  102. zapata
  103. blackberry
  104. blackberryid
  105. bbidentity
  106. playbook