g155927751, 19 октября 2012 г., 0:04
Password protection is a big issue in the growing technology age, how do you ensure that you are building a code that will work overtime to keep out hackers? PasswordGenie last week released an infographic displaying characteristics of weak and common passwords, and offering a few tips on how to keep your data safe. Despite websites that urge users to create a password with more than six characters, as well as a combination of lower- and uppercase letters, digits, and special characters, few people follow the rules. PasswordGenie reported that only 30 percent bang out seven or more characters, while 16 percent focus only on digits, 40 percent use only lowercase letters, and less than 4 percent type a special character or two. Unsurprisingly, the all-lowercase, six-character code would last about 10 minutes. Even a seven-character password stitched together with numbers and symbols would take only four years to decipher. If you're really looking for a steady password, try typing in a mish-mash of eight numbers and symbols, the computer won't be able to access your data for about 463 years. Even better, nine or more special characters will keep you secure for about 44,530 years. Users of Yahoo and LinkedIn have been the victims of recent password breaches, which turned up in the news that "123456," "work," "abc123," "123456789," and "the" were among the 10 most popular user passwords in each situation. A whopping 119 people used the word "sex" as their LinkedIn passcode. Don't feel bad if you are logging into your email, social networks, favourite online retailers, and all other sites with only a handful of different passwords. According to PasswordGenie, the average user visits 25 password-protected sites, but only uses six separate codes. In fact, 33 percent of people use the same password for every site. Source: www.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Infographic-How-secure-are-your-Internet-passwords_10985.html
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