10 worst passwords

In one of the biggest phising scams ever, the passwords of more than 10,000 Hotmail accounts were found to have been compromised and posted online.

The huge security breach was first reported by the website neowin.net, which said a list of the account details had been posted last week on pastebin.com, a forum used by software developers. This scam, as later reports suggested, may have compromised the privacy of at least 20,000 more accounts of users belonging to a number of other popular email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo and AOL.

According to security researcher Bogdan Calin of Acunetix, the hacked accounts show people still tend to go for weak passwords. The hack exposes the lazy and unsecure password habits of their users despite heightened security threats. Based on their analysis of the hacked passwords, rearchers have released a list of 10 most common passwords.

123456 tops the list of most common (and amongst the stupidest) passwords, Bogdan Calin told PCWorld. Calin reportedly got hold of the 10,000 stolen Windows Live Hotmail usernames and passwords that were posted on the Web site PasteBin late last week after which he analyzed and reached at the list.

According to Calin, the second most common password is 123456789. Both passwords, 123456 and 123456789, were among the most common used by the victims who fell prey to the phising scam. Of the 9,843 valid passwords he found, 82 of them used one of these two combinations.
 
First names such as alejandra, alberto and alejandro also figure among the most common passwords at No. 3, 5 and 7 in the list of top 10 worst passwords list. Based on the names, Calin believes that the passwords were stolen by a phishing kit targeting Latinos.

The fourth most common password is 111111. Security experts suggest that secure passwords should use a combination of letters, numbers and other characters. They forbid using passwords which have names, dates or dictionary words.

Calin found that just 6 per cent of the Hotmail passwords contained a mix of letters, numbers and other characters. More than 60 percent were either lower case letters only, or numbers.

At no. 8 and 9 in the 10 most common passwords list are again numeric-based passwords, 12345678 and 1234567. According to Calin, these passwords have been gathered using phishing kits

tequiero and estrella rank at no. 6 and 10 in the list. tequiero happens to be the soanish equivalent of I love you.

According to a statistical analysis of the 10,000 passwords published by Acunetix, 42% of the phished users use lower alpha passwords only (a to z), 19% rely on numbers only, with 22% of the total sampled population using a 6 character password (Live.com’s minimum), followed by 21% of users using 8 character passwords. 


Source : infotech.indiatimes.com

MTNL launched Location Based Application

MTNL Location-based application service (LBAs) is an information and entertainment service, accessible through a mobile network which utilises the ability to make use of the geographical position of the mobile device.

The LBS services can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, work, personal life, etc. The LBS services include services to identify the location of a person or object, such as discovering the nearest banking ATM or the where abouts of a friend or employee.


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Eye-Fi WiFi-enabled SD cards to UK

Eye-Fi Inc, maker of the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras, today announces that it will launch its much anticipated Eye-Fi wireless memory cards in the UK on October 19th 2009. Eye-Fi cards make saving and sharing memories effortless by allowing users to wirelessly upload photos and videos to their computer and the web. Eye-Fi cards allow users to take photos and videos anywhere (like their existing memory card) and automatically upload their photos and videos as soon as the camera is within range of the user’s Wi-Fi network.

Jef Holove, CEO of Eye-Fi, comments: “Because Eye-Fi eliminates the time and hassle, more than half of our users upload their photos and videos within 24 hours of capturing them. So, those memories are backed up, organized and shared with friends and family while they are still fresh.”

Three Eye-Fi cards will be available in the UK with a range of features: the Eye-Fi Home Video, the Eye-Fi Share Video and the Eye-Fi Pro, offering easy uploads and feature sets for every photo lover, from the simple snapper to the photography enthusiast.

Eye-Fi Home Video – automatic photo and video backups to the computer

Don’t wait months to backup photos and videos to the computer. The Eye-Fi Home Video card saves users time by wirelessly uploading JPEG photos and videos from their camera to their PC or Mac. Being organized with memories is made easy, as Eye-Fi will upload to any folder on their computer and arrange photos by date ¬Mac users can even upload directly to iPhoto. Flaunting 4GB of memory, the Eye-Fi Home Video stores up to 2,000 photos or 90mm of video and provides automatic backup to the computer thanks to its wireless capabilities.

Eye-Fi Share Video – wireless saving & sharing on the Web

Get family and friends updated automatically. The Eye-Fi Share Video card makes saving and sharing effortless by automatically and wirelessly uploading photos and videos to the user’s computer and to the web. Users can pick where their memories go, and can choose from popular websites like Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, MobileMe or YouTube – no need for the computer to be turned on for memories to be shared online. Don’t want to share it all with everyone? The Selective Transfer option, available for all Eye-Fi cards, enables users to control which media will be wirelessly uploaded.

Eye-Fi Pro – streamlining the workflow

Photo enthusiasts and professional photographers can now streamline their workflow. The Eye-Fi Pro card wirelessly uploads JPEG, RAW and video files to any folder on a computer (PC or Mac) and to the Web. Photographers on-the-go can also take advantage of its direct to computer (ad hoc) connectivity capabilities for direct uploads from camera to the computer without the need for a router. Organizing is made easy through lifetime, automatic geotagging (using Wi-Fi Positioning System or WPS), which enables users to view, search and share photos on maps and take advantage of a seamless integration with iPhoto ‘09.

Nokia N900 Plays 3D Games

The Maemo Summit is ongoing as we speak, and a video from the show is now available over the Internet, showing how the Nokia N900 can handle some 3D gaming (a Marble Madness-type game called Bounce Evolution has been used for the demonstration). While those who attended the show have had the pleasure of watching a live demonstration of the capability, you can take a look at the video below to see what 3D gaming on N900 is all about.

Maemo 6 is supposedly expected to include multitouch support on capacitive displays, to be a DRM-ready OS, to include panning, to offer support for developers, to come with support for portrait and landscape, but to pack a lot of the already-existing core elements too. Take a look at the slides available from the conference to make an idea

Source : softpedia