Re: Smart Money Inc. FWD: If you see your password below, STOP!

thx for msg. --- On Mon, 28/11/11, Zoher Doctor <zoherdoctor@gmail.com> wrote: From: Zoher Doctor <zoherdoctor@gmail.com> Subject: Smart Money Inc. FWD: If you see your password below, STOP! To: Date: Monday, 28 November, 2011, 7:32 PM As received from a friend...Hope its useful. Zoher   If you see your password below, STOP! Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password -- before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple accounts. Here are two lists, the first compiled by SplashData: 1. password 2. 123456 3.12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123 6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9. trustno1 10. dragon 11. baseball 12. 111111 13. iloveyou 14. master 15. sunshine 16. ashley 17. bailey 18. passw0rd 19. shadow 20. 123123 21. 654321 22. superman 23. qazwsx 24. michael 25. football Last year, Imperva looked at 32 million passwords stolen from RockYou, a hacked website, and released its own Top 10 "worst" list: 1. 123456 2. 12345 3. 123456789 4. Password 5. iloveyou 6. princess 7. rockyou 8. 1234567 9. 12345678 10. abc123 If you've gotten this far and don't see any of your passwords, that's good news. But, note that complex passwords combining letters and numbers, such as passw0rd (with the "o" replaced by a zero) are starting to get onto the 2011 list. abc123 is a mixed password that showed up on both lists. Last year, Imperva provided a list of password best practices, created by NASA to help its users protect their rocket science, they include: It should contain at least eight characters It should contain a mix of four different types of characters - upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters such as !@#$%^&*,;" If there is only one letter or special character, it should not be either the first or last character in the password. It should not be a name, a slang word, or any word in the dictionary. It should not include any part of your name or your e-mail address. Following that advice, of course, means you'll create a password that will be impossible, unless you try a trick credited to security guru Bruce Schneir: Turn a sentence into a password. For example, "Now I lay me down to sleep" might become nilmDOWN2s, a 10-character password that won't be found in any dictionary. Can't remember that password? Schneir says it's OK to write it down and put it in your wallet, or better yet keep a hint in your wallet. Just don't also include a list of the sites and services that password works with. Try to use a different password on every service, but if you can't do that, at least develop a set of passwords that you use at different sites. Someday, we will use authentication schemes, perhaps biometrics, that don't require so much jumping through hoops to protect our data. But, in the meantime, passwords are all most of us have, so they ought to be strong enough to do the job. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- Disclaimer Information, charts or examples contained in this mail is for illustration and educational purposes only. It should not be considered as advice or an endorsement to purchase or sell any security or its financial instrument until you are well conversant and confident about the movement.   For indiviual guidance please write to me seperately at zoherdoctor@gmail.com     Visit Us at: www.smartmoneydirect.co.in You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Smart Money Inc." group. To post to this group, send email to smartmoneyinc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smartmoneyinc-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smartmoneyinc?hl=en

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