Millions of Net surfers use obvious passwords to log on to websites, but their numbers appear to be declining. SplashData on Tuesday published its annual list of the top 25 most common — thus worst — passwords leaked online. No. 1 was “123456,” followed by “password” and “12345.” Both “123456” and “password” claimed the top spots in 2013, too, but “12345” was in the No. 17 spot last year. In addition to consecutive numbers, lazy password creators used obvious letter combinations. “Qwerty” was No. 5 on the list. Superheroes also ranked.
>> "Passwords, like cockroaches, will likely always be with us," Open Identity Exchange Chairman Don Thibeau told the E-Commerce Times -- "ugly, useless and undermining our privacy and security."
This guy not so bright. Passwords are not ugly. You want to talk about "the future" like biometrics? That's the dumbest possible road to go down. If somebody gets your password, you can change it. If somebody gets your fingerprint, you can't change that...
Let us remember that Apple's TouchID was circumvented on the FIRST day of the iPhone 5S release. In the words of the whitehat group that first bypassed TouchID, "We hope that this finally puts to rest the illusions people have about fingerprint biometrics. It is plain stupid to use something that you can't change and that you leave everywhere every day as a security token."
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Report: Dumb Password Use on the Decline
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 21, 2015 02:23 PMMillions of Net surfers use obvious passwords to log on to websites, but their numbers appear to be declining. SplashData on Tuesday published its annual list of the top 25 most common — thus worst — passwords leaked online. No. 1 was “123456,” followed by “password” and “12345.” Both “123456” and “password” claimed the top spots in 2013, too, but “12345” was in the No. 17 spot last year. In addition to consecutive numbers, lazy password creators used obvious letter combinations. “Qwerty” was No. 5 on the list. Superheroes also ranked.
This guy not so bright. Passwords are not ugly. You want to talk about "the future" like biometrics? That's the dumbest possible road to go down. If somebody gets your password, you can change it. If somebody gets your fingerprint, you can't change that...
Let us remember that Apple's TouchID was circumvented on the FIRST day of the iPhone 5S release. In the words of the whitehat group that first bypassed TouchID, "We hope that this finally puts to rest the illusions people have about fingerprint biometrics. It is plain stupid to use something that you can't change and that you leave everywhere every day as a security token."