Posted by claire on Mar 6, 2012 in Magnus News
Is you Computer Password safe?
The business world's most popular password has been revealed - and it's the predictable
'Password1'!!!!!- proving office workers are not the most creative of types.
More than five per cent of computer users chose it because it has a capitalised letter, a number and has the correct amount of characters normally needed whilch undoubtedly is easy to remember.
Common passwords:
god, love, lust, money, private, qwerty, secret, sex, snoopy.
Also
Double-words;
examples: kittykitty, johnjohn
Funny/nonsense/jargon words;
examples: wassup, bzzzzz, foobar
Insults;
examples: biteme, eatdirt
Keyboard sequences;
examples: asdfg, qweasd, poiqwe
Obscene words;
examples: (use your imagination!)
Passwords based on host name (for people with lots of passwords)
example: if the system is named 'cat' an obvious password is catpass
Reversals;
examples: terces, wordpass, nhojnhoj
People are also found to write down their passwords in places where they could easily
be found.
How safe or easy to copy is your's?