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2. Wikipedia:10,000 most common passwords - Wikipedia

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   About. If your password is on this list of the 10,000 most common passwords, you need a new password. A hacker can use or generate files like this, which may be readily compiled from breaches of sites such as Ashley Madison. Usually, passwords are not tried one-by-one against a system's secure server online; instead, a hacker might manage to ...

3. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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   Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%. [ 5]

4. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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   In December 2009, a major password breach of Rockyou.com occurred that led to the release of 32 million passwords. The attacker then leaked the full list of the 32 million passwords (with no other identifiable information) to the internet. Passwords were stored in cleartext in the database and were extracted through an SQL injection vulnerability.

5. These Are the Passwords That Hackers Will Guess First - AOL

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   Xato: “Today I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords” NordPass: “Top 200 most common passwords of the year 2020“ Techlicious: “The 10 Worst Password Ideas, as Revealed by Google”

6. The Most Common Password Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them!) - AOL

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   Creating a password shorter than 10 characters – It used to be that a password was suggested to be 8 – 10 characters in length. Now, experts suggest that they should be at least 64 characters ...

7. Collection No. 1 - Wikipedia

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   Collection No. 1. Collection #1 is the name of a set of email addresses and passwords that appeared on the dark web around January 2019. The database contains over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, resulting in more than 2.7 billion email/password pairs. The list, reviewed by computer security experts, contains ...

8. Password strength - Wikipedia

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   Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password against guessing or brute-force attacks. In its usual form, it estimates how many trials an attacker who does not have direct access to the password would need, on average, to guess it correctly. The strength of a password is a function of length, complexity, and unpredictability ...

9. These are the 10 worst passwords — is yours on the list? - AOL

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   The largest-ever data breach, which took place this past winter, resulted in the exposure of more than 3.2 billion unique email addresses and passwords.Yep, that’s billions with a ‘b.’ IBM ...