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Top Ten administrator passwords you should avoid
Researchers at The Univerisity of Maryland recently completed a study in which four Linux servers were set out as bait to see the frequency of attacks.They found out that there were 269,262 attempts in a 24-day period (ref: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117302). Michel Cukier, a professor of the University of Maryland led the study on the most frequently-used (and guessed) administrative passwords in cyberspace. According to him, Here is the list of the most commonly-guessed passwords, in order of frequecy:
1. (username)
2. (username)123
3. 123456
4. password
5. 1234
6. 12345
7. passwd
8. 123
9. test
10. 1
For tips to create a secure password, check out our earlier post - Tips to create secure password.
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