Serendipity: hackers use simple password-hackers, password-IT news Serendipity: hackers use simple passwords

Internet access when we are afraid a hacker will spy on their passwords, ever thought of hacking itself is how to do it? They will be terribly complex password? According to security expert survey, like most hackers, at least on the password and we care.

For research purposes, security expert study on Antonin Hyza perennial malware, and collected in this process a number of passwords used by hackers, a total of more than 40,000. He found after careful investigation, the average password length is only six. In 1601 samples in the sample, only 52 is longer than 12 digits.

Even more interesting is that these common words constitutes a nearly 10% in a password, and use only lower case. Many hackers have a superb technique, but they don't even bother on the password settings are case-sensitive. Hyza says this makes him very easy to figure out who the hacker tricks.

Come back but then again, hacker safe doesn't pay much attention to myself, doesn't mean we have the ability to fight back. Maybe this will give some peace of mind to use simple passwords before now.