{"id":85800,"date":"2018-03-28T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:02:58","slug":"password-bracketology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/password-bracketology\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Bracketology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PasswordThe University of Michigan<\/strong><\/a> Basketball Wolverines<\/a>, the Hockey team, and the Debate team<\/a> all have made it into the<\/a> NCAA Final Four<\/strong><\/a>. Along the way, the Wolverines busted a few brackets. In keeping with the March bracket madness, Keeper Security<\/a> ran an analysis they’ve called “Password Madness”. In Password Madness<\/strong><\/a>, they developed their own bracketology of bad passwords. During Password Madness, the publisher of password manager software ran an analysis on 1.4 billion clear-text passwords\u00a04iQ found<\/a>\u00a0on the dark web for sports team mascots<\/strong> used as passwords.<\/p>\n

\"University<\/a>Followers of Bach Seat<\/em><\/a> already know that passwords suck and there is a long list of passwords<\/a> like “password” and “123456” that should be banned from use. According to a statement<\/a> from Keeper Security, of all the passwords looked at, those containing “Tiger<\/strong>” and its variations (such as “T1ger”, “T1g3r”, etc.) appeared 187 percent more often than passwords containing variations of “Eagle<\/strong>,” the second-most common password set found, and nearly 850 percent more than the least common password, which was “Bluejay” and its variations.<\/p>\n

The not so \u00e9lite eight passwords on their list are:<\/p>\n