12.02.09
Your favorite passwords: ‘1234,’ ‘password’
- Hacking, Internet, Security -
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON–Better think twice before choosing a password for emails, online bank accounts and airline tickets.
Passwords that show no imagination or distinctiveness are easy prey for information pirates, a new US study says.
A statistical analysis of 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website and posted on the Internet reveals that people often do the easy thing.
It found that 16 percent took a first name as a password, often their own or one of their children, according to the study published by Information Week.
