06-19-2021, 07:29 PM
(06-07-2021, 09:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Most of the bad passwords found on the Dark Web originate from these groups. In fact, about 59% of Americans use a person’s name or family birthday in their passwords. Another 33% include a pet’s name and, shockingly, a whopping 22% use their own name to create passwords.
I'm not sure a family birthday is all that bad if it's just a string of 8 digits. People have to know something about your family to break that. The issues these days are mostly from cyber criminals that aren't targeting anyone in particular; they're just looking for vulnerable accounts, so a random date won't be much easier than any other digit string to break.
Names are, of course, a terrible ideal.
I suspect "stratfor" was on that list because they were a site which got its entire subscriber list hacked, and I guess a lot of users used the site's name in their password.
At least the top passwords are no longer women's names, as they were in the days when guys used their girlfriends' names for their password. I remember when the top password on the internet was "susan".