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