Thread: Is your Password Vulnerable to Attacks?

While we all have multiple accounts for different purposes on the web, we do not give importance to our passwords or the fact that it must be changed from time to time for security reasons.

Computer security firm Imperva has released a report stating how users can avoid the common trends while setting their password and use passwords that are more protected from hackers than the rest.

The report called 'Consumer Password Worst Practices' by The Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) says that users are vulnerable to set the same password for all websites that require logging in and the situation has been the same over the past 20 years. Key findings of this study, which examines 32 million passwords exposed in the Rockyou.com breach, include that about 30 percent of users chose passwords whose length is equal or below six characters. Moreover, almost 60 percent of users chose their passwords from a limited set of alpha-numeric characters. Also, nearly 50 percent of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on).

The most common password among Rockyou.com account owners is "123456". The runner up is "12345". The following table depicts the top 20 common passwords in the database list:

Password Popularity - Top 20

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