The “BBC World,” a specialist in the field of technology a new Revealed details about the incident of piracy, which exposed “Hot Mail” yesterday for stealing ten thousand user accounts.
The e-mail service has been the type of hacking is called phishing, as established by which the pirates exact copy of the site and then a financial institution are trying to fool the user access to personal data such as passwords, in his research to dictate the form on the fake website, allowing them to use these data to capture the funds.
The Web site quoted Bogdan Calin, an analyst in the field of electronic security as saying that among the most vulnerable words used are “123456″, “123456789″. Also found that 82 of the user between ten thousand, and put these two formulas, while occupied structures “12345678″ and “1234567″ and “111111″ list of ten most common words.
“The BBC World,” that the list was not free of foreign names are very common, such as “Alberto” and “Alejandra” and “Alejandro”; therefore believed that the process of piracy Calin recent targeting Latinos.
Kalin said that the vast majority of Internet users are still using passwords are very weak, which is the same as that spoken by other experts, who conducted the examination of the stolen data.
He pointed out that Kalin 6% of the passwords contained a mixture of numbers and letters and punctuation marks, and more than 60% of which included letters and numbers only.
It is noteworthy that many experts say the safe words should contain letters and numbers, as well as other marks, and should not include names, dates, and words spoken.
