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#10000 MOST COMMON PASSWORDS PASSWORD#

But if it's hard to remember - I mean, something that's hard to guess. So, you have to come up - basically, the rule is you come up with a hard password, something that's hard to remember. It's difficult to remember passwords, especially if you have to - if you have to change them often. Those are simple rules, but it turns out they're kind to follow because, you know, changing your passwords often, choosing passwords that are easy to remember, that's very annoying, and very few people actually follow these simple rules.ĬONAN: And, indeed, it is annoying because it's hard to remember passwords. And you should use passwords that are not readily guessable.

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You should not use the same password for several different sites. So, the key to all of this, the key to sort of stopping all of this is to follow, you know, a few very simple password rules. It has everything in there about you, because we kind of live out of email these days. Most people run their email - It's sort of the keys to the kingdom. So it's really had to take down.ĬONAN: And one of the things your column makes clear is that once people get your password to an email account from that, they can probably derive the password you use on your bank account and other accounts, too. And they're run by, you know, in this sort of drive-by way, where people will setup a Web site, and it'll stay up for a little while, then go down. Like, they're often run from foreign countries and - where, you know, law enforcement has little jurisdiction. I mean, I think this is another hallmark of these attacks. But sometimes they can be very sophisticated, and people fall for them all the time.ĬONAN: And this, it turned out, was being run not just in this country, where some of the arrests were made, but in Egypt, as well. You'll notice them - the - when they go to the Web site, they don't look exactly like PayPal or Wells Fargo. I mean, usually, these attacks are kind of unsophisticated. And, of course, I don't have a PayPal account. Just to make sure everything's okay, just enter all your information here.

But one of them says, your PayPal account, we have questions about security. So you enter that in, they get it, and then have, you know, they have access to all your stuff.ĬONAN: And I get these, well, I think, every day. It's actually run by some nefarious person who's trying to get your information.

And you think it's a legitimate site and you enter you password and your username in it, but actually it's a sort of just masquerading a legitimate site. So phishing is when somebody sends you to a Web site that kind of looks like a legitimate Web site, say, it looks like your bank account or PayPal or something like that. FARHAD MANJOO (Technology Columnist, ): Hi, good to be here.ĬONAN: And for those who don't know, what is phishing? For one thing, it's spelled PH. Farhad, nice to have you back on the show. And he joins us from KQED, our member station in San Francisco. You can find a link to his column on password security on our Web site, npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.įarhad Manjoo is technology columnist at. Email us: And you can the conversation on Web site. If you have a question for him about password security and phishing, our phone number is 80. So, what makes a good password, and how do you protect your computer and yourself from phishing? In just a moment, we'll talk with Farhad Manjoo, technology columnist at. Recently, 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and passwords were exposed online, a huge security breach.Īnd what turns out to be the most common password? 123456. They were after online scam artists, identity thieves, men and women who convince you that it's okay to click and enter your password to your email or your bank account. The culprits aren't haddock, perch or walleye.

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This software is copyright (c) 2020 by is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.Yesterday in North Carolina, Nevada and California, law enforcement officials launched Operation Phish Phry and netted 33 arrests.

#10000 MOST COMMON PASSWORDS PATCH#

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website Uses bloom filter, so word_exists() might give small probability of false positive (bloom filter size=260K, k=12, false-positive rate 0.00468%). Uses random-seek pick(), which gives higher probabililty to longer words. Wordlist is sorted by popularity (most popular first). This document describes version 0.003 of WordList::Password::10Million::Top100000 (from Perl distribution WordList-Password-10Million-Top100000), released on. WordList::Password::10Million::Top100000 - Top 100,000 passwords from 10_million_password_list VERSION

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