Twitter the micro blogging social network site, founded in 2006, has banned 370 words for security reasons. Words like 123456, porsche, ferrari, chelsea, arsenal have been banned and users cannot use it as passwords. They state that these common passwords increase the risk of hacking and phishing.
How did they get the list of these words?
Is it that majority of the 25 million users of twitter use these passwords? Or is it from a general survey done across all web based applications? How will it
help?
Better way to manage passwords:
Use Alpha-numeric-symbol passwords which would be extremely difficult to hack. If you find it difficult to remember such passwords, just draft a document wherein you have documented such passwords and mail it to
yourself. If possible encrypt it and document. e.g. use the subsequent letter for each letter and then save (instead of TWITTER save it as UXJUUFS). Just churn your brain and you can fight back hacking.
Password management is a new technique to remember/document passwords, which can be accesses anywhere and anytime. Think from the hacker’s point of view and trick them!
Rogues
1 comment
Sion says:
January 20, 2010 at 1:48 am (UTC 5.5)
A better way is to generate a truly random password, since password schemes that involve a simple once-letter increment or decrement to a dictionary word are easily cracked by hackers with appropriate software.
You can keep track of these passwords with the best online password manager there is – Mitto (http://mitto.com).
Like or Dislike:
1 
0