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Old 10-14-2009, 09:05 AM
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At no. 8 and 9 in the 10 most common passwords list are again numeric-based passwords, 12345678 and 1234567. According to Calin, these passwords have been gathered using phishing kits.
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Old 10-14-2009, 09:06 AM
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tequiero and estrella rank at no. 6 and 10 in the list. tequiero happens to be the soanish equivalent of I love you.

According to a statistical analysis of the 10,000 passwords published by Acunetix, 42% of the phished users use lower alpha passwords only (a to z), 19% rely on numbers only, with 22% of the total sampled population using a 6 character password (Live.com’s minimum), followed by 21% of users using 8 character passwords.
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