Thursday, June 25, 2009

A review on a post on Internet Security from My E-commerce blog


A password is a secret word that used by most users to prove their identity or access to the resource. In the modern, many area also required users to key in their users name and password to log into a process so that it can protect the computer processing system. There was no requirement that password must be actual words, indeed password which are not actual words are more difficult to guess by a hacker. According to the blog, there are some research done by the Information week stated that based on their analysis of 28000 passwords, 16% users likes to use their name include their spouse or children name while 14% likes to use some password which are easy and nice such as 1234 or 12345678. Lastly, there are small amount of users who will used the word "password" as their password.

Besides that, there was also some other password which will used by the users such as the English keyboard letters below the numeric keys. This password is easy to remember by the users and not so easy guess by others. Those popular TV show stars such as Pokemon, matrix, iron man also will be chosen as the users passwords. I love you or I hate you also quite popular to be used by users for their password.

Based on some computers expects opinion, an online users should not use the same password for everything because once the password has been figures it out, the hacker will do some malicious damages especially for online banking. So that, it is recommend to use a combination of letters and numbers that would be virtually impossible to guess such as a23ui9r but remember not to record it down as a document on the PC.

In conclusion, users need to be cautious when create their password to prevent some malicious damages. Some website which require user name and password from the user to enable log in will restricted the users to choose a password which is longer than 8 character. To be more safer, users can create a password with a capital letter or a symbol or a number.

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