According to the reports about the passwords , it indicates that now a days people are choosing more and more safer passwords. A study of sample of login information from 34,000 Myspace.com members indicated that result.
A article about this was published on wired News by Chief technology officer of Counterpane security Agency.They obtain the login information through the Phishing Scam.They created a fake Myspace.com loginpage and trickled users into thinking they had to enter their credentials to access their accounts on the site. According to writer he obtained the list through his security industry friend, as he stated in his note.
The average password is 8 character long and 81 % of those passwords were consisting of alphabets and numbers means alphanumerals. The five most common passwords were : Password, password1, abc 123 ,myspace1 ,and blink182 (it is a band name). Only 3.8 % of them were a single word found in a dictionary and others include 12% were word plus a digit , two third of time the digit was 1. So for Myspace.com users the most common password is "password". It might seems funny but it is true and based on a study . After "password" the most common password is "password1"
Overall passwords are getting better because a majority of users uses a password which is consisting of alphanumerlas because passwords consisting of alphanumerals are considerd to be good passwords. But users still don't want to remember multiple passwords.
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