The worst passwords of 2011: ‘password,’ ‘123456
 

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In spite of a constant drumbeat of news about hacking and cracking computer accounts, users still are employing extremely common and obvious phrases as passwords.

A compilation of the most commonly used — and potentially most insecure — passwords seen over the past year was recently drawn up by Splashdata and reported in Mashable. Splashdata found that incredibly enough; the leading password in use today is the word “password.” Interestingly, item number 23, “qazwsx,” which is the first three rows of keys typed vertically, counterbalances number 4 on the list, the keyboard lineup of “qwerty,”

The list closely parallels that developed close to two years ago by Imperva, showing that these terms never go out of vogue.

Here is this year’s list:
1. password

2. 123456

3.12345678

4. qwerty

5. abc123

6. monkey

7. 1234567

8. letmein

9. trustno1

10. dragon

11. baseball

12. 111111

13. iloveyou

14. master

15. sunshine

16. ashley

17. bailey

18. passw0rd

19. shadow

20. 123123

21. 654321

22. superman

23. qazwsx

24. michael

25. football

SmartPlanet colleague Tuan C. Nguyen provides a surprisingly simple technique for deriving a strong password that makes it difficult for hacking programs to arrive at the right brute force combination — employing a symbol in combination with an upper case and lower-case letter.

Not everyone thinks that strong passwords are the answer, however. In another study on passwords, a Microsoft researcher conducted a cost/benefit analysis of efforts to encourage stronger passwords, and questions whether the cost of strong password management outweighs the benefits.

The 25 worst passwords of 2011: ‘password,’ ‘123456′ | SmartPlanet

I had the image which shows graph of keyword used by people but i lost it

in that "Password" is on top then "123456". hmmm "passw0rd
" fallen down :P