Search Results for: diceware

PC World in reporting on the 25 worst passwords of 2013. As it does every year, Splashdata, a security firm, has compiled a list of the most common passwords culled from stolen password lists. Everything is depressingly normal. All our … Continue reading →

A little while ago Ars Technica published an interesting article on how password crackers build their lists of trial passwords. The TL;DR is that they scan Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, news websites, song lyrics, IRC logs, Twitter, and other sources of … Continue reading →

Dan Goodin over at Ars Technica has an interesting and scary article about cracking his neighbors’ WiFi network passwords. Sadly, this turns out to be a lot easier than it should be. The general process is Capture the authentication handshake … Continue reading →

The invaluable Troy Hunt has run another analysis of recent dumps of password data from Anonymous, LulzSec, and others. This time he looks at how people select their passwords. As with his previous analyses, the results are depressing. His idea … Continue reading →