Really nice one! Some people I know personally, use their root passwords as either 11 or 123. With those weak passwords, they can save lots of time when doing a su. Only because of this, they choose such ultra weak passwords. Ironically, those people have a very good awareness that such passwords are very easy to crack :-)
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:41 PM, aravind vijayan < aravindvijayan224...@gmail.com> wrote: > Over the years of fighting malware, the avast! Virus Lab has gathered > many samples of various back-doors, bots and shells. Some of them are > protected with a password encoded in MD5, SHA1 or in plain text, so it > was good way to start. I looked at 40,000 samples of hackers’ > passwords and found that nearly 2,000 were unique and 1,255 of those > were in plain text. Another 346 passwords were easily cracked from MD5 > hashes, because they were shorter than 9 characters. That gave me a > total of 1,601 passwords and 300 hashes. I created statistics from > those words, and here are my findings. > > source: > https://blog.avast.com/2014/06/09/are-hackers-passwords-stronger-than-regular-passwords/ > > Registered Linux user #545296 > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net -- THOMAS. *M.VAZHAPPILLY*
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