Thursday 20 December 2012

'Password' Tops List of Worst Passwords of 2012



  If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame on you -- and go change them now.
  SplashData, which makes password management applications, has released its annual "Worst Passwords"       list compiled from common passwords that are posted by hackers. The top three -- "password," "123456," and   "12345678″ -- have not changed since last year. New ones include "jesus," "ninja," "mustang," "password1,"       and "welcome." Other passwords have moved up and down on the list.
  The most surprising addition is probably "welcome."
  "That means people are not even changing default passwords," CEO Morgan Slain told TIME Tech. "It doesn't   take that much time to make a new password."
   You should have different passwords for all of your accounts. To make it easier to remember them all, Slain       suggests thinking about passwords as "passphrases." For instance, use a phrase like "dog eats bone" and add   underscores, dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to satisfy the special character requirement: "dog_eats_bone!"

Here's the full list:

1. password
2, 123456
3. 12345678
4. abc123
5. qwerty
6. monkey
7. letmein
8. dragon
9. 111111
10. baseball
11. iloveyou
12. trustno1
13. 1234567
14. sunshine
15. master
16. 123123
17. welcome
18. shadow
19. ashley
20. football
21. jesus
22. michael
23. ninja
24. mustang
25. password1

P.S : This article is taken from TIME

The 10 most Google search terms of 2012


Nobody's videos tug at the heartstrings quite like Google's, and the search giant's latest 2012 retrospective lives up to that sky-high standard, managing to be jump-out-of-your-chair inspirational and quietly tear-jerking at the same time. (Watch the video above.) Along with this moving clip, on Wednesday, Google released its annual global zeitgeist report, highlighting 2012's most searched for terms, distilling what people people care about down to perhaps its most basic and universally understandable form. More than 1.2 trillion searches were conducted worldwide this year, with "Whitney Houston" — who unexpectedly died in early February — topping the list. Next up was the indelible "Gangnam Style" — the strangely popular South Korean horse-dancing music video — followed by "Hurricane Sandy," which hit New York hard back in late October. "Zeitgeist means 'the spirit of the times,' and we strive to capture this spirit through exploring the year’s new and exciting search terms," Google told Bloomberg in a statement. Here, in order, are the year's most searched for terms:

1. Whitney Houston
2. Gangnam Style
3. Hurricane Sandy
4. iPad 3
5. Diablo 3
6. Kate Middleton
7. Olympics 2012
8. Amanda Todd
9. Michael Clarke Duncan
10. BBB12


Check out Google's other year-end lists, including the most searched for images, athletes, and movies, here.
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