The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData.[4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%.[5]
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This fun yet strong password idea requires you to list the ISO codes of your favorite countries or counties you visited (that way, you can update your password every time you visit a new nation). You will get something like this:
If you decide to use this method, be careful not to use common misspellings (such as "acommodate"). Hackers feed cracking programs with password lists with all usual wording errors, so the more obscure your password is, the better.
Whereas a brute force attack tries every possible combination of symbols, numbers, and letters, a dictionary attack tries to crack the password via a prearranged list of words. This attack typically starts with common categories of words, such as:
The overall password trends analyzed from worldwide users match up pretty well with this list, making the most used passwords in the world extremely prone to dictionary attacks. Those users in the US and Spain with these passwords are also extremely susceptible to hacks.
When you visit a website that requires you to sign in, Microsoft Edge will ask if you want your user name and password remembered. The next time you visit the site, the browser will finish filling in your account info. Password saving is turned on by default, but you can turn it off.
A word of caution first: There are plenty of online blogs publishing similar lists of funny passwords or Wi-Fi user names and so on. Some users might feel encouraged to actually use these for their accounts when they lack inspiration for what password to set. Maybe you also think that if you set a funny password, it will be easier to remember it later on.
We will get a similar result to the following output if any of the users match with the given password. You should also notice that we have used the flag -L instead of -l. -l is for a single username and -L is for a list of usernames.
If we have a list of usernames and passwords, we can implement a dictionary attack. But if we have more information on which usernames are likely to have a set of passwords, we can prepare a custom list for Hydra.
With Azure AD Password Protection, default global banned password lists are automatically applied to all users in an Azure AD tenant. To support your own business and security needs, you can define entries in a custom banned password list. When users change or reset their passwords, these banned password lists are checked to enforce the use of strong passwords.
The Azure AD Identity Protection team constantly analyzes Azure AD security telemetry data looking for commonly used weak or compromised passwords. Specifically, the analysis looks for base terms that often are used as the basis for weak passwords. When weak terms are found, they're added to the global banned password list. The contents of the global banned password list aren't based on any external data source, but on the results of Azure AD security telemetry and analysis.
When a password is changed or reset for any user in an Azure AD tenant, the current version of the global banned password list is used to validate the strength of the password. This validation check results in stronger passwords for all Azure AD customers.
The global banned password list is automatically applied to all users in an Azure AD tenant. There's nothing to enable or configure, and can't be disabled. This global banned password list is applied to users when they change or reset their own password through Azure AD.
Cyber-criminals also use similar strategies in their attacks to identify common weak passwords and variations. To improve security, Microsoft doesn't publish the contents of the global banned password list.
Some organizations want to improve security and add their own customizations on top of the global banned password list. To add your own entries, you can use the custom banned password list. Terms added to the custom banned password list should be focused on organizational-specific terms such as the following examples:
When terms are added to the custom banned password list, they're combined with the terms in the global banned password list. Password change or reset events are then validated against the combined set of these banned password lists.
To fully leverage the benefits of the custom banned password list, first understand how are passwords evaluated before you add terms to the custom banned list. This approach lets you efficiently detect and block large numbers of weak passwords and their variants.
Azure AD Password Protection efficiently blocks all known weak passwords likely to be used in password spray attacks. This protection is based on real-world security telemetry data from Azure AD to build the global banned password list.
Although the global banned list is small in comparison to some third-party bulk lists, it's sourced from real-world security telemetry on actual password spray attacks. This approach improves the overall security and effectiveness, and the password validation algorithm also uses smart fuzzy-matching techniques. As a result, Azure AD Password Protection efficiently detects and blocks millions of the most common weak passwords from being used in your enterprise.
When a user changes or resets their password, the new password is checked for strength and complexity by validating it against the combined list of terms from the global and custom banned password lists.
Fuzzy matching is used on the normalized password to identify if it contains a password found on either the global or the custom banned password lists. The matching process is based on an edit distance of one (1) comparison.
Here is a comprehensive list of default username and passwords for most of the VMware products. If you're like me, you tend to get alot of these confused. If I left any off, please let me know in the comments.
Attackers can easily identify and access internet-connected systems that use shared default passwords. It is imperative to change default manufacturer passwords and restrict network access to critical and important systems.
Factory default software configurations for embedded systems, devices, and appliances often include simple, publicly documented passwords. These systems usually do not provide a full operating system interface for user management, and the default passwords are typically identical (shared) among all systems from a vendor or within product lines. Default passwords are intended for initial testing, installation, and configuration operations, and many vendors recommend changing the default password before deploying the system in a production environment.
Attackers can easily obtain default passwords and identify internet-connected target systems. Passwords can be found in product documentation and compiled lists available on the internet. It is possible to identify exposed systems using search engines like Shodan, and it is feasible to scan the entire IPv4 internet, as demonstrated by such research as
An attacker with knowledge of the password and network access to a system can log in, usually with root or administrative privileges. Further consequences depend on the type and use of the compromised system. Examples of incident activity involving unchanged default passwords include
Change default passwords as soon as possible and absolutely before deploying the system on an untrusted network such as the internet. Use a sufficiently strong and unique password. See US-CERT Security Tip ST04-002 and Password Security, Protection, and Management for more information on password security.
Vendors can design systems that use unique default passwords. Such passwords may be based on some inherent characteristic of the system, like a MAC address, and the password may be physically printed on the system.
Restrict network access to trusted hosts and networks. Only allow internet access to required network services, and unless absolutely necessary, do not deploy systems that can be directly accessed from the internet. If remote access is required, consider using VPN, SSH, or other secure access methods and be sure to change default passwords.
Vendors can design systems to only allow default or recovery password use on local interfaces, such as a serial console, or when the system is in maintenance mode and only accessible from a local network.
The default password policy authentication provider allows you to enable two-factor authentication via SMS OTP (one-time password) or TOTP (time-based one-time password) in combination with a user's login/password. A one -time password (OTP) is a password that is valid for only one transaction on a device and can be used only once. In the SMS OTP implementation, an OTP is generated and delivered via SMS messaging. In the TOTP implementation, the generated one-time password is valid only for a certain period of time. Two-factor authentication, therefore, provides an extra level of security by using two levels of verification of a user's identity. If a particular URI pattern is associated with an authentication provider with two-factor authentication enabled, the application sends an SMS to the user's device upon login, or during the first-time access of the URI.
Tick one of these checkboxes to support sending emails for recovering usernames and passwords, especially if the SMTP server is on an external network. You will most likely need to change the Port to 465, the default port for SSL/TLS.
By default, LDAP servers such as MSAD, RHDS, or FreeIPA hash and salt passwords. Other LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP or ApacheDS store the passwords in plain-text unless you use the LDAPv3 Password Modify Extended Operation as described in RFC3062. Enable the LDAPv3 Password Modify Extended Operation in the LDAP configuration page. See the documentation of your LDAP server for more details. 2ff7e9595c
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