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Jan 22, 2010
123456
BACK at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was '12345'. Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: 123456. Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google's e-mail service, many people have reacted to electronic break-ins with a shrug. According to a new analysis, one out of five Web users is still leaving the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat. They choose simple, easily-guessed passwords like 'abc123', 'iloveyou' or even 'password' to protect their data.
'I guess it's just a genetic flaw in humans,' said Mr Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva, which makes software for blocking hackers. 'We've been following the same patterns since the 1990s.' Mr Shulman and his company examined a list of 32 million passwords that an unknown hacker stole last month from RockYou, a Californian company that makes software for users of social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. -- mypaper
Home > Breaking News > Tech and Science > Story
Jan 22, 2010
123456
BACK at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was '12345'. Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: 123456. Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google's e-mail service, many people have reacted to electronic break-ins with a shrug. According to a new analysis, one out of five Web users is still leaving the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat. They choose simple, easily-guessed passwords like 'abc123', 'iloveyou' or even 'password' to protect their data.
'I guess it's just a genetic flaw in humans,' said Mr Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva, which makes software for blocking hackers. 'We've been following the same patterns since the 1990s.' Mr Shulman and his company examined a list of 32 million passwords that an unknown hacker stole last month from RockYou, a Californian company that makes software for users of social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. -- mypaper
