Last year’s worst of the worst passwords has been dethroned. However, the Worst Passwords of 2013 List is still chock full of face-palmingly bad passwords. And, yes, although it is no longer number one, “password” is still very much on the list. The worst password of 2012 was, indeed, “password.” And this year the worst […]
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On June 6th, something like 6 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked. At the very least they weren’t storing them in plaintext, but they also didn’t use a particularly great hashing algorithm (SHA1) and they didn’t use any salts, much less a per-user salt. Anyway, you can read more about that other places, this post is
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Internet users continue to use many of the same weak passwords used a year ago, according to a new list compiled from password files released by hackers. Despite the vulnerability presented by weak passwords, many Internet users continue to put their security at risk by using common words or number sequences that are easily guessable.
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