Maybe people go with passwords like 123456 and the very tricky 12345678 because they think they're so obvious that hackers won't guess them?
Anyway, SplashData, a maker of password management and other mobile apps, has released its list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011 (in other words, most common) and they're mostly predictable, with a few oddballs tossed in.
As we've seen this year, such as with the Morto A worm, weak passwords continue to be any path for malware to take. Researchers are doing their best to automate stronger pathwords, using algorithms and other techniques, and as you can see here, such work is necessary...
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
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