Hisham Galal: Top 50 Media Gawker passwords

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Top 50 Media Gawker passwords

While I was reading articles in ShalshDot website, I read one taking about the top 50 passwords

For me the top passwords I am always facing are

welcome1
oracle
oracle123
Oracle10g
Oracle11g
companyname@password
companyname@password123
passw)rd
admin
admin123
weblogic1
weblogic123
weblogic123$
password2$
companyname123$

Unfortunately, I found those easy passwords in big organizations (some of them multinational ones) in Middle East. I think the best approach to create passwords it to use random password generator. However sometimes I am using one of those passwords for the sake of facilitating implementation and deployment, but system supposed to change them however he isn't doing that. May be in the future I will avoid that.

1 comment:

bex said...: autogenerated passwords are kind of tricky to recall... I usually recommend "pass phrases," a long obscure phrase you memorize, then type in the first letter of each word.

Even better... use a passphrase to unlock a SSH key fob, and keep all your passwords there. Just don't lose it ;-); January 5, 2011 at 1:20 AM