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20 Common Passwords

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

The following list is the result of an attack on RockYou.com whereby a hacker managed to obtain all the account details of 32M users.

Rank	Password	Number of Users with Password
1	123456	290731
2	12345	79078
3	123456789	76790
4	Password	61958
5	iloveyou	51622
6	princess	35231
7	rockyou	22588
8	1234567	21726
9	12345678	20553
10	abc123	17542
11	Nicole	17168
12	Daniel	16409
13	babygirl	16094
14	monkey	15294
15	Jessica	15162
16	Lovely	14950
17	michael	14898
18	Ashley	14329
19	654321	13984
20	Qwerty	13856

What is the most popular password?

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Released

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Time to move on to Mozilla Firefox 3.6.

Some of the new features include:

Changes were made that prevent other programs from adding their own toolbar to Firefox without your permission.
Firefox 3.6 will alert you about out of date and insecure plugins.
Private browsing also removes TEMP files

Release Notes

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Internet Exploer Update Released KB978207

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Microsoft has released out of it’s standard cycle a patch to fix the much publicise flaw in Internet Explorer. If you are a person who insists on using Internet Explorer then it’s critically important that you patch your system. This vulnerability effects Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 running on Windows 2000 SP4; Windows XP SP2 and SP3; Windows Server 2003 SP2; Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2; and Windows 7.

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