Mastering Security: Post 0002 - Mastering Security

The 25 Worst Passwords of 2011

Today, MSNBC published this list and declared that these are the 25 worst passwords of 2011.

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passwOrd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football

This is the article in case you want to read it from the source. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/21/8937472-the-25-worst-passwords-of-2011

Note to all System Administrators, if you are smart, you know how to configure your operating system authentication access security systems to reject such idiotic passwords. Keep this list handy and refer to it now and then. Because as long as systems require authentication using passwords, passwords will remain a serious system vulnerability.

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William Favre Slater, III

MBA, M.S., PMP, CISSP, SSCP, CISA, ISO 27002, ISO 20000, ITIL v3, Cloud Computing Foundation

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