A myriad of password-cracking software are easily available online, allowing malicious individuals to leverage on the software capability to run up to an astounding 8 million guesses per second! There is no way to take these software off the market, so the only thing a user could do is to change passwords often and enforce best practices when setting hard-to-guess passwords. Easy Availability of Password-Guessing SoftwareĪ lot of unscrupulous albeit amateur hackers are taking advantage of password-guessing software. Recommended Reading: How Common is Your Password? 2. Other passwords guessed correctly by hackers in the Gawker breach include “lifehack”, “11111″, “letmein”, “superman”, “batman”, “sunshine”, “starwars”, “whatever”, “computer”, “killer”, “welcome”, “internet”, and “master”. “ blahblah”: If you can’t be bothered to create a strong password, then blah to you too.“ f***you”: Expletives will get you nowhere, evidently.“ iloveyou”: Yes, so does the hacker that did this to you.A healthy dose of conspiracy theory dished out by Mulder and Scully, anyone? “ trustno1”: I actually laughed when I discovered that this was in the top 10 list of most commonly used password during the Gawker breach.“ qwerty”: Yet another popular easily-guessable password.Try avoiding this setting this “password” at all costs. While it’s amusing to see it on screen, it’s definitely NOT so funny if it were to happen to you. The password? You guessed it right – it’s “password’. “ password”: I once watched a Leslie Nielsen movie called “Wrongfully Accused” (a spoof of “The Fugitive”) and laughed when he successfully guessed the villain’s password.“ 123456”: There’s no excuse for this: plain laziness can cause one’s website or account to be hacked.Check to see if your password is as common as those that were revealed below: The infamous Gawker hack in 2010 showed just how thoughtless some people can be when setting their passwords. What this means that if a hacker can get inside a person’s Facebook account, he can also get inside his/her other account using the same password.
According to a survey by Sophos 33% of the people use the same passwords.
Passing guessing is one of the fastest techniques to hack any account. However, all is not lost – there are still good hackers out there who use their skills to detect system vulnerability and work hard to fix the issue, thus preventing further attacks by malicious hackers. But when more and more hackers misuse their talents for their own personal gain, the term “hacking” took on a new meaning, and now, people generally know hackers as one who break into systems with evil purposes.
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