Yahoo's mass account hacking shows 'users' carelessness with passwords'

A security breach at the offices of internet search giant Yahoo, which led to over 450,000 login details being leaked online, highlights how careless Internet users are while choosing their passwords. Last month, a hacking collective posted account information belonging to thousands of Yahoo users on a public website in what they described as 'a wake-up call'.
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The incident showed that the company that holds user details in question has poor user security, which allows the hackers to grab this important data.

But most importantly, it tells how blind Internet users are when it comes to password security.

According to the report, out of 442,837 passwords that were published, the top ten passwords were "123456," "password," "welcome," "ninja," "abc123," "123456789," "princess," "sunshine," "12345678," and "0".

The word "'qwerty"' (the first six letters appearing on the top left letter row of a U.S. keyboard when read left to right, came in at number 11..............

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Cybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way

Identity theft, password breaches, viruses and worms, phishing attacks, Stuxnet—the more we rely upon technology in our increasingly connected world, the greater the risk that we’ll be hacked. Even worse, it seems that the rate at which hacking stories come across the wire is actually increasing, in spite of all the hard work at all the various security organizations, both commercial and governmental. The frightening truth is, perhaps the hackers are actually winning.

The root cause of our vulnerability, of course, is the Internet itself. When the essential elements of the Internet first rolled out—TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS, to name the most flagrant offenders—no one had any idea how important security would become or just how flawed these enabling technologies were when it came to protecting ourselves from increasingly dedicated and persistent malefactors. Today, that horse has long since left the barn. Maybe we can close the door, sure, but it might not matter anymore..........

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