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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shan5dx" data-source="post: 4614860" data-attributes="member: 54642">Password Hacking2. Guessing :- Many passwords can be guessed either by humans or by sophisticated cracking programs armed with dictionaries (dictionary based) and the user's personal information. Not surprisingly, many users choose weak passwords, usually one related to themselves in some way. Repeated research over some 40 years has demonstrated that around 40% of user-chosen passwords are readily guessable by programs. Examples of insecure choices include:* blank (none) * the word "password", "passcode", "admin" and their derivatives * the user's name or login name * the name of their significant other or another person (loved one)* their birthplace or date of birth * a pet's name * a dictionary word in any language * automobile license plate number * a row of letters from a standard keyboard layout (eg, the qwerty keyboard -- qwerty itself, asdf, or qwertyuiop) * a simple modification of one of the preceding, such as suffixing a digit or reversing the order of the letters. and so on....In one survey of MySpace passwords which had been phished, 3.8 percent of passwords were a single word found in a dictionary, and another 12 percent were a word plus a final digit; two-thirds of the time that digit was.A password containing both uppercase & lowercase characters, numbers and special characters too; is a strong password and can never be guessed.</blockquote>

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