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Stories about: password analysis

Gawker Accounts Database Analysis Reveals Poor Password Habits An analysis of the the leaked Gawker user database revealed that a lot of people are using incredibly easy passwords that are on the default wordlists of most cracking software.This past weekend, Gawker Media, the company operating some of the Internet's most popular blogs, including Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku ... 14 December 2010 09:57 GMT Leaked Hotmail Account Credentials Reveal Weak Password Trends An analysis of the around 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail passwords that have been exposed in the wild has concluded that the majority of users still employ weak passwords. The average password length is eight characters, but only 6% of them contain both alpha-numeric and special characters.A few days ago, Microsoft conf... 7 October 2009 05:17 GMT